Once upon a time there was a little girl who would love to sleep for hours - unconscious of the world around her she would remain in her bliss. Her school was far away in the woods so she would have to get up very early in the morning to catch a bus lest she would miss the school for the day. Waking her up was an arduous task for her folks - some days her dad would flinch to wake up the sleeping beauty which used to make the mom angry. Invariably, the little girl would mostly end-up standing in the 'late-comers' line in the school along with her elder sister. Elder sister for many years used her 'Prefect' of the school status and managed to get the little girl out of trouble.
As the little girl grew up, the burden of studies started taking a toll on her sleep - she would end-up finishing her course till the last minute and eventually burn the midnight oil. Her love for sleep for always there - but alas the want to be an educated, smart girl took over. As the little girl - now in her teens- moved towards college, she loved nights for the solitude where she would study, surf the Internet, chat with friends etc. She would only sleep when she was exhausted!
As time went by, the grown-up girl fell in love, got married, had her children and in the entire razzmatazz of life, her beauty sleep was lost. She would feel lucky if she could sleep through one night peacefully without being worried about an intruder, anxious about kids, thinking about what to cook for the next meal, preparing her thoughts for the next day's meeting and her brain doing a flash back of the entire day. She would wake up all groggy wondering why would the sun shine so early and so bright. She would miss the days when she would sleep like a baby as a little girl!
One day a fairy came into her dreams and told her "Woman, sleep follows a cycle, you would have it in abundance towards the beginning and end of your life. The time in between is to enjoy your sleepless nights - after all you are lucky to have so many things which require your attention that you would need both day and night to look after."
The girl felt good - she doesn't crave for sleep anymore...she sleeps whenever she can with a smile.