Daily writing prompt

The most important invention in your lifetime is…

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This is yet another easy question to answer. As the majority of my adult life will prove there is one invention that as far as I’m concerned is the greatest of all time. This is the bed. I don’t mean this in a sexual manner. I don’t have a girlfriend or a wife but the fact is that I love to sleep. I could sleep all day if I was given the chance. Most of the time though, I have to do things in my day which make it hard to sleep as late as I want. As a matter of fact, at one point in my life, (I think it was the year 2021,) I literally slept all day owing to four straight days where I didn’t sleep due to stress that was relevant at that time. Throughout that day, I did not eat or drink all day and each time I got up, it was with the thought of, “I will just sleep one more hour,” ETC. Of course one more hour turned to two which turned to even longer. I officially woke up at about 9:00 p.m. that night to find my friend sitting on my couch as we had planned to watch a movie when I eventually woke up. With no food in my system at all, I sat down after struggling to get out of bed and made very little conversation with my friend only to fall asleep again once the movie started. As I was unable to enjoy it or the company from my friend, the plan was cancelled and I fell asleep again in my bed waking up in the middle of the night to finally eat something. This was the first thing I had eaten that day. Needless to say, mom was not happy when she found out how long I had slept and I ended up getting sick from not eating for a full day. Of course, this is what lead to mom making the decision to have my on a schedule. As I’m writing this, I realize that the stress stemmed from the possibility of having to return to work if my ODSP cheque failed to come in on time, (which was an ongoing problem I had in the weeks, months, and even years after quitting my job,) which was that I was worried that it would not come in leaving me with no way to pay my bills and forcing mom to make the decision to send me again even though she made it clear numerous times that she would never allow it reassuring me time and time again that my cheque would come. I think at this point, (the one where I slept for a full day,) stress had mounted to the point where I could not sleep even though I was exhausted and this is what made me sleep as long as I did. The problem is that even though I’m no longer stressed about working again, the routine of sleeping has stuck to me and any chance I get to sleep, I take. This has officially resulted in me being a night owl and labelling myself as “not a morning person,” even though many people including mom would dispute this fact. I find it very ironic that as I write this, I’m falling asleep at the keyboard. However, I will say this. Whoever invented beds deserves a gold medal as far as I’m concerned. I could live in them if people would let me. Having said that, I guess I will have to just keep on dreaming, no pun intended. I even jokingly and sarcastically say that if I was to get another job, I would be the next sandman as he is known to put people to sleep. I just enjoy sleeping and with that I will end by saying the two greatest words in the world…..GOOD NIGHT!