“Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.”

“Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.”

“Lying flat on my back, with my toes dipped into the lake, I stared at the stars for a second. I guess I should have pondered their beauty and realized the rarity of a sky unsaturated by city lights, or something. But it occurred to me that you could probably see stars from the vast majority of the earth. It was city lights that were actually rare.”