<television> The sound of the audience created the illusion that I was not alone, but no one was watching me. I still could not sleep. Darkness never seem to arrive when I desired it. The television was a pathetic excuse for a remedy. As a child, the television gave me comfort. It was the centerpiece to my childhood bedroom. I could tell you the TV schedule every weekday from the time I got home from school to midnight. I rarely had to change the light bulbs in my room, the blue light from the television radiated in my dark room every night. As I grew older, however, I felt too tired to even turn it on. Instead, I would just leave my curtains opened and peer out into the world outside my room. Sometimes at night, I had a clear view of the moon. I would stare at it for hours, thinking about its size. How could something so big look so small? I found myself opening the curtains of the motel room. I searched for the moon, but I only saw my reflection in the cold dar...