熬夜

        画画经常画到很晚，右手拿着油画笔在调色板上抹来抹去，然后在油画布上抹来抹去，心里有很多很多的感觉，在抹来抹去中融入色彩里面，于是时间过得很快，夜晚走得很快，画完了很高兴，如果累了，就可以睡觉了，一看表原来已是凌晨了。
 
        老听别人说，小姑娘不要熬夜，对皮肤不好，对身体不好，听不懂。我又不是故意要睡的晚的，累了我就是会睡，不管白天黑夜。所以我没觉得熬夜。听人讲过熬鹰的故事，说为了让老鹰听话，和老鹰一起不睡觉，比谁先睡着。谁先睡着谁就输了。熬鹰就是为了让老鹰先睡着，让他听话。他输了，他就真听话了。据说熬鹰要熬到九天半，真不容易。鹰一直都不睡，两个眼睛特别有神，东看看，西看看，到了后来，还有一个小时的时候，如果人一不留神睡着了，人就输了，鹰飞上蓝天就再也不会听你的召唤。如果鹰输了，那么你左手一伸鹰就飞了，右手一伸手鹰又回来了，还带着野兔子。

        不知道谁发明了熬鹰这个方法，挺奇怪的想法，为什么通过熬夜的办法能让鹰听话呢？我就在想，为什么用熬这个字？

        那熬夜意味着什么呢？

        人和夜熬谁会输呢？原来熬夜是和夜晚较劲，是在比谁先睡着，有人赢过吗？就算你熬到天亮是谁赢了？夜赢了还是人赢了？ 
 
        夜晚挺奇怪的，虽然是黑的，你说他是睡着没睡着啊？说不清楚，所以我想问每个熬夜的人夜晚到底是什么？熬夜意味着什么？累不累？困不困？想不想睡？那么有没有人熬白天呢？白天用熬吗？好像白天都是度过，不管是幸福的度过，愉快的度过，紧张的度过，都是度过，中途累了也可以小睡一会，但那不是熬，那是放松，还挺舒服的，下午精神又特好。好像天一黑，就犯病了。累了也不想睡，就是和黑夜较劲。一般聪明的人，到了晚上精神都特别好，思想特活跃，还贼兴奋，有时候话也很多，然而木讷的人，到了晚上特别容易犯困，话也不多，听别人说话多了也很烦，就想睡觉。心里面想求求你们了，让我回家睡觉吧，我熬不过你们。他没有说我熬夜熬不过你们。真有点意思。他是在熬夜呢，还是在我们熬他呢？哎，不管怎么说吧，到了晚上就该睡觉，管他熬不熬呢？

        还是白天好，可以见到特别特别好的东西，看的很清楚，特真实，特亲切。气息而别好，颜色特别好，所以心情特别好，晚上挺吓人的，如果没事干，真吓人。我一般选择没事找事做。所以我晚上过的挺好的。睡觉也很正常，没有和夜较劲。

        女人应该好好睡觉！

I always stayed up late in the night, playing with my palette. Holding my paint brushes, mixing colors on the palette, a mixture of feelings rushed in my mind and fused with the colors on the palette and when I painted on the canvas. I enjoyed so much in the painting, without noticing that time slipped away. When I finished, it’s already dawn time. Thinking of my works, satisfied, I went straight to my bed. Now it’s MY bed time!
Everybody says it’s not good for girls to stay up late in the night, not good for skin, not good for health, blah blah… But I don’t care. I don’t care it’s daytime or the dark night; I sleep whenever I feel like it. Whenever I feel tired, I’ll allow myself for a sleep or a nap. So for me, there is no such saying of “staying”up.
Once I heard a story about a man staying up with an eagle. The man would stay up with an eagle for as long as he can in a purpose to be boss of the eagle. If the man wins and stays up longer than the eagle, he would be the master of the eagle. And a man would need to stay up for nine and a half days to win the battle! During the entire time, the eagle was up with its eyes wide open and looking around. And if the man couldn’t stay for the last hour, or the last minute, the eagle would fly away and never come back. But if the eagle fails, it would be obedient to the man. With a wave of your left hand, the eagle would shoot high in the sky, and another wave of the right hand, it would come back right away and with its hunt.
It’s not known who are the first one to think of the way of staying up with eagles so as to tame them. But it’s really interesting. Why to stay up with them? And what’s the point of staying up?
If a man stays up in the night, who would stay longer, the man or the night? A man can stay up through the night, but even if he makes it, can you say the man is the winner?
As it’s dark in the night, you can’t tell if the night is asleep or not. I can’t tell either. So what’s the night mean to you guys who like to stay up in the night? What do you want when you are staying up? Don’t you feel tired, don’t you want to sleep?  Then why to stay up in the night? Why not stay up in the day? And does anyone really need to “stay” up in the day? It seems daytime is much easier to live, whether it’s happy time or hard time; when you feel a bit tired, just take a nap, or relax for a while, and you don’t have to stay up. But when the night falls, you don’t want to go to sleep, even if you are tired. And I’m one of them. I like to stay up in the night. It’s said that the smart guys are more active in the night than in the day, who would be more exciting and more talkative. While for those dull ones, night is bedtime and nothing is more important than to sleep. You never try to keep them up in the night, and they will never stay up in the night with you. It’s not that they can not stay up late in the night, it’s just they can’t stay up with you. Anyway, bedtime is bedtime. You just go to sleep if you want to. And I'll be up to what I want. But it’s nothing to do with staying or not staying up.
Whatever, daytime is more pleasant. You can see all nice things, lovely and clear. In the daytime, you will find everything smells better, looks better, which makes you feel better. While in the night, if you are up with nothing, that sounds not interesting, that’s terrible. But I’ll always find myself busy with something in the night. I enjoyed my time in the night. I will not trouble myself with the thought of going to sleep or not. Anyway, every woman deserves a sleep feast!