And so, nothing lasts forever after all.

It's been quite a frustrating phenomenon, that of my pillows at home becoming flat at alarmingly fast rates--the holy grail of a pillow that can support the weight of my head has been eluding me for the past two, three years since my early JC days--it seems any pillow my parents buy for me just goes flat within a night's sleep.

So, I sleep on flat pillows every night when I'm home--other than that, everything's perfect, with a great mattress (orthopaedic one at that! great stiff stuff that you can break your bones jumping on haha), nice curtains, and the nice windy breeze I've become accustomed to from having lived on high floors all my life--it's just the pillows.

It's quite the reverse, sleeping in camp, staying in--the mattress is decent, no doubt, and it really is quite comfortable, save for the capricious ceiling fan that always seems to spin faster when I feel cold and slower when I'm all stuffed up; but really, the thing that beats it all in camp, is the amazing cheapskate pillow that just doesn't sink no matter how I smash my head into it (well, figuratively speaking haha). It just stays the same--and I've appreciated the great, comfortable, never-sinking pillow in camp, hailing it as the one thing I could return to camp for, haha.

Yet, last night, I was quite pleasantly amused, even if slightly disappointed, to find my pillow slightly flatter at one side than the other--the onset of the Jiaqi's-head-flattens-the-pillow phenomenon.

And so that was it--the end of the fairytale of the never-flattening pillow that survived 8 months of my head--"So, fairytales never last forever and not everyday is a Sunday, isn't it so?", I thought to myself as I flipped my pillow over to the unflattened side of it.

So that was it.

Even fairytales come to an end.