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Short story

Parents have to watch their kids sleep till they are 6'3

Parents cannot go to sleep but instead we have to watch our children go to sleep, until they grow up to 6'3. I never really knew the reason why parents had to do this but when I had a child, my wife and I has to stay away to watch our child sleep. We took turns watching him sleep, and so we could sleep on certain nights. Then my wife died and then I had to watch our child sleep every until he turns 6'3. It is a rough ride and I absolutely hated it. Sleep is important and I regret doing this so much.

Because of the lack of sleep I was a terrible parent for my child. Then two single guys with no kids or a family, they live on a block of flats next to my house, everyday I hear them bickering how one of them is more unimportant than the other. They both have this obsession with not being important and being the most unknown person in the world. They both want to be the most insignificant thing to ever exists that do nothing for society. I don't know why but they both annoy me because they have nothing better to do than bicker about who is the most unimportant person in the world.

So for many years I could never sleep at night because I had to watch my son sleep till he becomes 6'3. I could hardly sleep during the day because I had to work and it had been horrible. Then many years on many parents were over joyed with their children becoming 6'3 so now they could sleep during the night. Their joy became my hope and faith that soon my son will become 6'3. Then as my son became 26, he was still 5'6 and that meant I still had to watch him sleep.

Has done all of the growing now and I couldn't take it, I just wanted some sleep. So I smothered him in his sleep and then after many years I had a great sleep. When I awoke I just stared at his dead body, then my friend called me to his house. As I went outside I could hear the two guys bickering about who is the most unimportant.

Then when I get to my friends house, he tells me to sleep the night and I agreed. Then I told him about who was going to watch his adult son sleep because his son is only 5'9. My friend said not to worry about it.

We slept the night and everything was fine. Nothing was wrong with his son and nothing was wrong with him and he told me "watching your children sleep till they are 6'3 is bullshit"

I then went home and just wallowed in pain.

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