Second Post

 Dear Followers,

Now is the time for the second part of my two part memoir on the Subject of Strict Habits.  In Part 1. I  wrote to you about the "luxurious and mystifying world of the culinary arts."  

In this second part, I will divulge to you the strict habits needed concerning sleep.  I will make known to you the mystery of sleep, where it comes from, and how to achieve it, as I have.  Now, let us begin...

Sleep.  It is a powerful word that courses through our everyday conversation as though it was something normal, something that everyone has and participates in.  While people might know an imitation of sleep, they don't know the true meaning and have not experienced it as I have.

It is a mysterious substance, a life sustaining aspect that we use to survive.  As I wrote in my autobiography, A Life That Inspires,

"Above all other mysteries, the lost Incan civilizations,

the search for Eldorado, the myth of Atlantis, there

remains sleep.  In our rising hours, it eludes us, the ultimate

evasive movement; the moment we can study

it, we are unconscious of it.  It is the ultimate foe."

It is infused with the perfect defense; like a foe shows itself only when your eyes are closed.  then, the moment we stop experiencing it, we lose all memory of it.  And yet, are we asleep when we think we are?  Or are those our rising hours?  What if our lives, as we know them, are simply the dreams in our minds.  What if the blank spaces in our memories are when we actually live?  After all, the two are separate; but how are we to know which is the dream and which is the real life?  But if this is the dream, then it is ever reoccurring , and what are our actual lives like?

These are the questions that must be asked, and the ones that I have sought the answers to for so many years.

But how can one achieve this perfect sleep, this ultimate everything?  Tradition!  It takes dedication to the ways of my forefathers to sleep for twenty one hours a day.  Not only this, but it is tradition coupled with Strict Habits.  The struggle to hold fast to these traditions is something which all will contend with.

It takes practice to achieve most anything, and sleep is nothing different.  These traditions are the practice needed, the key to the perfect sleep; the key to the mystery of sleep.  And so the world spins on, and I sleep on, ever searching for answers. 

Readers, I understand that this second part of my two-part memoir is less concrete, and I apologies for this.  However, it is a matter which, at the present time, cannot be amended.  While both cooking and sleep requite dedication and strict habits, they are quite opposite.  to master both would be to wield a fearsome power.

One more I leave you.  I hope that I have given you much to ponder, and that you may benefit from these writings.  

-Jacque