In my excitement, I spared them the details and shot right into my plan. I still had my semi-evil idea in my head that I had formed earlier; where to lead the bird to. Where else could I send it besides my neighbor's house? I chuckled to myself as I realized that if we were still friends, Tom would have probably thanked me for the thoughtful and creative "Housewarming Gift." He may have even gone far enough to say it was what he's always wanted. Sometimes I miss that guy.
As I walked closer to my house, I reached my sweaty hand into the white paper MacDonalds bag to grab the fries. I took the red carton out and started to toss them up onto the roof near the pelican to test if he would eat them or not. Even with my horribly bad luck, the bird gobbled the fries up in a single swallow and continued to stumble across the roof. Realizing that my plan might actually work, I started to toss the fries in a pattern across the surface to lead him toward Tom's house. When the trail of salty fries reached the end of the roof, I started to chuck the fries toward Tom's house. Once again in my disbelief, my plan continued to succeed.
The pelican finally took flight in a quick ungraceful swipe and dropped down to Tom's much lower roof. Seeing that my plan was carried out to perfection, I threw the remaining fries up to Tom's aging roof. My luck continued to surprise me as the pelican decided it wasn't worth the effort of crossing back over to my house. My plan actually worked! I thought getting over my worst fear would probably be pushing my luck to the very limit possible… After the feeling of accomplishment blew over as soon as it had arrived, everything began to make perfect sense to me.
It finally occurred to me that there was a direct correlation between how I live my life and the experiences I have in Sleep Town. First of all, when I arrived in Sleep Town after falling asleep in algebra class, an issue of an extremely obnoxious neighbor plagued me much to my annoyance. The connection in question deals with emotions. I was irritated in class because I didn't understand the material, and the pelican nested on my house as a result of falling asleep scared out of my mind from the horror movie. It was so simple and yet so complicated at the same time.
Within the months following these two dreams, I remained persistent about returning to Sleep Town with Ryan and Megan. Some days the dreams weren't all that great because I had had a miserable day. One dream following a day of mass chaos and confusion involved me being involved in a court case for a man named Dino who I had never met in my life. Other days, the dreams were incredibly rewarding, such as the day that I got a raise at work resulting in a dream about Megan, Ryan, and I forming a band called "Double Negative" and touring the globe.
The entire experience did actually teach me something although I didn't realize it right away. I learned that tomorrow is a new day. If I have a bad day, there is always tomorrow. The best thing that I can do is just try to live for today and make it a good day, as my hard work will pay off later. Even on the worst days of my life, I know I can expect the sun to rise in the morning providing me with a brand new day and brand new opportunities.