A child screams in the night. You go to them and they tell you about a nightmare. They won’t settle unless you acknowledge it, but you don’t want to wake up the whole house. So you tell them stories to calm them down. None of this matters and it won’t be real in the morning. Sleep is what matters for now. And calm.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://imaginemyrelief.blog/2019/08/02/this-brutal-overhaul/