Concrete and Water

If I hadn't woken up this morning to go to my canceled class.
I'd be in the throws of sleep tangled in covers eyes shut tight catching glimpses of a world paralleling this one.
This hour would not be mine. It would be gone I would never experience 10 am October 7th 2008.
While we sleep we lose. Minutes, hours, add up to weeks we spend not really here. What happens to all that time we could have had. We're giving it away, we have to though it is our human condition to need sleep. Every single day. It's almost like a preview of what death will be like. We won't be "here" to see it but everything will go on around us. The world does not stop with us when we sleep and when we die it will be the same thing except we may never get to see it ever again. We won't eventually open our sleep heavy eyes to rejoin the familiarities around us. We may be stuck dreaming forever. So seize the day?

Or maybe this is all a dream that I have been indulging in far too long.