Dream Journal
I was sitting at my desk at work and heard a lot of noise coming from across the hall: there was a high school graduation going on in the auditorium, and many attendees were screaming in excitement.
Standing outside the door, I wished I could attend and be as happy and excited as everyone else, but the door was closed and I had to work.
I walked down the hall to the bathroom. There were four stalls on my right, three of which were occupied. I pushed open the door to the last (handicapped) stall and saw the toilet had no seat on it.
There were three women already waiting for the three stalls, so I walked to the other side of the restroom and the second set of four stalls. There was a large crowd of people waiting for these stalls, and every stall was full. When one door would open, someone would push through the crowd to be the first one in the bathroom.
There was no order on this side of the restroom and no line; it was chaos. Men and women both pushed and shoved for a stall while children hollered at each other. I was jostled around a bit and, with my full bladder, decided to try the first side of the restroom. It was now just as crowded as the second side.
I left the restroom and went outside. I found my high school friends sitting on logs near a cold campfire near a small lake.
I sat on a log next to KatiAnn and made a joke about the bathrooms and everyone laughed. KatiAnn looked aroundat the burnt area to my right and the lake to my left, and said quietly that it was the last time to happen like this.
I realized the graduation ceremony had taken place here and not inside. I wondered what the burnt area was for. Everyone sitting around the cold campfire was very solemn, thinking about the past and the changes of the future.
I realized that my joke had been very inappropriate in the current mood. I hadn’t realized it was a serious moment and felt bad for my joke.
Themes: Toilet