## 41 Tale of a Pillow

Hello, I'm the pillow of the author of this blog. Sometimes, he's writing on his laptop, lying on me. So I know how to use a laptop...And I'm writing myself when he's sleeping when he's lying deeply asleep half out of bed. Oh, you know with humans in bed, it's always a war with the sheets, the duvet...and the partner when they are two. Do you think it's a hardwork to support their head, their arms and sometimes their fists ? I'm designed for that ! I'm a strong pillow but not with duck or goose feathers. Don't forget that he's vegan...So I'm build with foam. A firm foam but also a thick foam without memory. I knew some pillow with shape memory. They are always show off : «Look at me, I'm still in good shape...». Pff...I don't need this. I make some exercise and my human let me breathe. 

What I don't like, it's when he decides to wash me in the washing machine. I'm not a swimmer !! I don't like water. Imagine that I must preserve me from human saliva. I have many protections for that with pillowcases and sometimes a special one for summer when it's too hot and the humans are sweating a lot. Oh, you want to know my age ? A little indiscreet but I'm 8 years old and it's quite a good age for my category of pillow. Yes, I know the problem with dust mites and allergies. My humans have so many allergies...They have cats, you know. And, by chance, the cats are not sleeping on me. I hope to live a little more years. My foam is still in good shape but us, the pillows with foam, we are not living long. I knew old pillows with feathers that lived for several decades but it's very rare, nowadays.

I have the chance not to be alone during the day. There are solitary pillows, alone on a bed or a sofa. But I have friends, other pillows or duvet. I wouldn't speak for my friend duvet but it's a difficult life to be a duvet. I'm happy to be a pillow in this house. I'm feeling useful because my humans are sleeping more than 6 hours a day and that's good for them. They are not making battlers with us like those mini-humans...oh yes, children. That's awful to be thrown, hit, trampled, torn, … The bad side of humans. We love to sleep with you, humans, to be calm, kind. We know that you have nightmare and we just can imagine, because pillows haven't nightmare. And we are not sleeping either during the day. Just because it's difficult to sleep with you humans always taking us in your arms, putting us everywhere, under your ass, under your head...But we are always there for you, so soft and mellow for you. You wouldn't do that with something hard.

We are not resentful for all that too. And as a non natural pillow, made of foam, I can't tell much about recycling. But I'm sure you could do better with all that plastic you use. If you can recycle bottle cap in a jacket, you can maybe do the same for pillow...And what about our old pillow, thrown away in the bin ? I'm sure that so few of my comrades are alone in a landfill. My Human is very kind. He even put me in a special bag for the summer months with less temperature. No, he's not putting me in the fridge. It's awful to do that. But I don't like heat, like… my human. Just  1 or two degrees less, it's a little happiness for us. You can even spray water delicately on us...but I'm still not good at swimming. The month that I like are the winter month, when you are so happy to sleep under the duvet with us.

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