Before Nap Time was a Good Thing

       Nap time, the most dreaded time for any pre schooler, a time of moans and groans and crys and screams, but now a time of relaxtion and pleasure. When i was little nothing seemed worse than taking out that plae blue cot and setting my pillow and blanket down upon it, it was a sign that nap time was approching. I would do anything to prevent that horrible time, and even if it did come i would rarely nap. But now looking back on it, I wish i still had that opportunity today. What used to be a nightmare then, seems like a complete blessing now.
     I remeber when I was little I would play all day amongst my fellow 2 year olds and have not even the slightest care in the world. I could do whatever, whenever, time would fly by, until the fun came to a halt and the teacher would would say, "It's time for nap time." From there complete chaos broke out, screams and crys, runnning children and hiding children. I was a crier i wanted nothing to do with the said  "nap time", I wanted to play and color not rest and listen to music.
     Once the chaos slowed to a mere disturbance, it was time to colloect our cots. Those cots were the worst part of nap time, they were heavy and extremly uncomfortable, and they were the sign that nap time was really here. After all the cots had found a nice place on the floor it was time to get our blankets and pillows, I was still crying at this point. It took afew times, but onced be comvinced that nap time would end, I stoped crying and found my cot.
      All the kids had now gotten situated on their cot and had laied down, some of the really tired ones had fallen asleep to the Mozart music, but not me. This hour would be the slowest hour of my entire day, but at the time must have seem like my entire life. I would lay their looking at the popcorm celing and listening to the boring music, that was on a  good day. On bad days nothing could stop me from crying, and i mena nothing.
       I rember on weekends I would stay home with my family, the four of us would normally just hang at home. We would have a nice breakfast and then watch tv and play with our toys. We would then have a nice big lunch and after we finished my mom would say, " All the princesses are really tired from their lunch and need to take a quick nap so that they can get more energy to play with the prince." This was not what this princess wanted. I wanted to play with all my toys and watch my tv, this princess wasn't tired she was wide awake or so she though.
       Today, at the age of 14, this princess would do anything to have a nap in the middle of her school day. Today I look foward to lunch just so that I don't have to do work, so to have an hour in the middle of my day would just be the greastes thing in the world. Nap time now is rare so if it were a scheduled thing my life would be 10 times easier. Overall if nap time were an option today, 1 minute or 1 hour, I would snatch it up in a heartbeat.
      Looking back on things I think i hated nap time so much because my day was filled with so much fun and friends that nap time was just major downer, and being a kid that word "tired"was alomst a dare and you would make sure that you werent tired and you'd do everyhting to show that you weren't. But now with my day consitting of class after class and work after work, anything seems better. And the word "tired" is something you take on as, "yeah I am tired, I am worn out, I did have a hard day, and a nap would sure seem great right now." So i t just leads me to believe that there might be things now that seem so bad, like homework and highschool, that might seem great in the future, so i just have to enjoy every bit of it.