Scenery before Sleep

Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

I live near the Seattle area, and when I see the city at a good angle, it reminds me of my toddler days.

When I was little, sometimes I would have trouble falling asleep, so sometimes when my mom and I were coming home from shopping or from school, she would say:  “Tyler, do you want to see the city?” and then I’d say: “Oh yeah yeah!” and then we drove to an area where I could see the entire skyline of Seattle, and every time it made me fall asleep.

The way my head works and what helps me go to sleep is that I want to see a beautiful image of some sorts so I can keep that image in mind.  It’s like seeing the City of Seattle and it’s \ the last thing I want to see before shutting my eyes tight. I don’t do this every time I go to sleep, but sometimes, even today, if I have trouble sleeping I would want to see something gorgeous.

Sounds and music tunes help me sleep too.  The realistic scenery is something I’d love to hold on to my eyes until I fall asleep. Ever had a scene you just want to keep for a long time?   To me, I think that’s how great dreams come into play is the amazing thoughts we have during sleep.

What do you think about before you go to sleep?

After Writing the Dancing Article

Like I said on the article, “I love to dance!” I do it for fun. When I saw my peers doing the sexual bending, I got very confused and asked myself “Is this normal for teenagers to do this?” I honestly thought that teenagers were more creative in their dance movies more then writing a book or painting a picture… but even those two things are hard. I don’t know, I think dancing is a lot more fun then a lot of stuff, and there should be creativity on those things. To me, I thought that’s how people get impressed by different dance moves and having fun.

But when people do the same thing, that’s what I call major peer pressure. I called it a “Snake Horde” Because snakes mate in a large horde. Seeing the sexual bending lead me no choice but to leave; because if you’re the only person that dances with style and no one else does it, it’s just no fun. In fact selfish because there are other people who don’t want to do that.

In fact, after posting that article, I started a revelation on the dances at my high school. Later on throughout the years, there have been not a lot of people going to the dances lately. It was all a part of the plan; finding real dancers who know how to break it down. Later on, I’ve noticed more dancers came, and then more. Pretty soon, the school dances are a little more enjoyable.

Then you get the senior students who want to torment the lower classes. Peer pressure is a terrible thing. They think that it’s natural for a senior to change a freshmen, for me. It’s the other way around. As a freshman student, I did things that every other freshmen didn’t do, and that is have courage and have the ability to stand tall in being one’s true self.

After writing the article, I have been bullied badly. I thought it was because that the article was so huge that it’s going to change the dances later on, and many people don’t like that. I was ready for that, because it was big, and there are a lot of people who did not like it.

I never regretted that article, and I keep it in my archives always.