zzzzzzzzzzzzz..............

It was one of the very very rare weekdays when I had to take an off because of some work. Luckily things got sorted out real soon and by noon I was all free though a bit wound up. I headed towards home-so unlikely to go in that direction at this hour of the weekday. My mind was racing and making a long list of ‘to do’ tasks which could be completed now that I had the power of time with me. The sun was bright and happy and you could call it a warm afternoon if not hot. It reminded you of the college days when you could just sleep through the afternoon lab practicals without even a shred of guilt to mar the sheer joy…
As soon as I entered by house, I realized that indeed the sun was a bit too high and the cool of my house welcomed me. I suddenly had amnesia and my mind trashed the list into the recycle bin..the only signal my brain communicated was zzzzzz….Now was the time to just close my eyes and go into deep sleep , while the rest of the world worked hard for their living. Oh what a pleasure it is…to know you have a whole long afternoon stretched in front of you to just sleep…no chores , no todo’s…just idle sleep…no monsters waking you up…the simple basic pleasure o life yielding a million bucks…as more abstract and yet irrevertible though not valued forms of money…one’s health.
When was it last that today’s common, independent, rising and shining men/women had a straight eight hours of sleep without a single thought of the next days list of Herculean tasks? There are things all around us which need time..the luxuries/passions of life..but all mere things…we are living in a maze of objects which we cant do without..its the same hollywood dream/nightmare come true when machines start controlling the human species..though in a less dramatic and more subtle way…The long queues at cinema halls, the mad rush in the malls, the traffic jams on the road, the competition to be ahead….where is the pleasure of listening to naani’s bedtime stories when kids can play video games or watch endless cartoons…where is the satisfaction in just having a relaxed late morning cup of tea when the previous day we had hit the disc till the wee hours(Bangalore is lucky to be awake only till 11:30 pm!)or slogged our brains to the extreme in our offices…
How our minds and souls plead us to slow down, savour the moments of life..invest with undisturbed and undisputed sleep…so they feel taken care of for a long-lasting healthy return called “life”…..