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Sophie Bubrick is originally from San Francisco, California, and is currently a Psychology major at Endicott College. She is involved in the online women’s college magazine HerCampus, and she is an editor for the Endicott Review. Sophie’s work has also been published in the anthology of writing Declare What you Know To Be True, published by The Intuitive Writing Project in Orinda, California.

One couch to sleep on is enough

Sophie Bubrick

Look at all these things. These gorgeous things. I own piles of warm sweaters, an array of heels, five rings, an assortment of cheeses in my fridge, four throw pillows against the head of my bed, a different scented candle for every season, some of my jeans have rips in them, some don’t, I have thousands of followers on my seven different social media accounts, I have three middle names, and subscriptions to 5 magazines that all write about the same thing. Yet I feel no different than the day before. I choose a pod from my coffee machine in the morning while I listen to music off of my Spotify premium account. Oh these things. These wonderful things, are beginning to feel not so pleasant. I sit on the floor by the front door of my house. A house I bought along the seashore with not a single soul to share it with.  And as I look around, my wonderful things drain from view. And all that is left is a couch in the middle of the room. One. So I climb over and curl up on this simple, plain piece of furniture. One couch to sleep on is enough I think to myself as I doze off to sleep, thinking tomorrow will be different.

— Sophie Bubrick

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