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I think sometimes it was safer for me to stay in bed than not. If I was in bed sleeping then I couldn't be doing something self-destructive. It tended to be a rather thin line though. I agree that sometime getting up is a ton of work. First turning over, then moving one foot off the bed, then the other. Then you had to get the torso off the bed, and gravity felt so much harder than usual. Then there was the question, should I get dressed or not. What should I wear? Maybe I should just put on the dressing gown. Where is that anyways? Maybe I'll just stay in bed, too much work.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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