The big divide ....
Between?
The rich and the poor ....
The good and the bad ....
The beautiful and the ugly .....
The fat and the thin ...
The man and the woman .....
Nahhhh .... the one thing that has been a tic in my life since I was a kid ....
**This post is strictly in favour of the ones who believe in getting up late.
Note - BELIEVE in getting up late. Its not an event that occurs on one weekend or only when you are tired. You believe in "not" seeing the morning sun, cos you lurveeeeeeeee your sleep :D
Torture used to be bestowed upon me by my parents until I started working ... every morning a bhajan used to be sung in the home .... 'uthja betaaaaa' .... 'dekh subah ho gayi' .... 'get up and have your breakfast' .... and after about an hour of nagging it used to come to ....'uthtee hai ke nahi?' ... and then Dad in my room!!! Khatam, up and out of my bed .... half awake ... pretending to be extremely sorry about getting up late, 'one more time' .... Ok, don't make faces now! And the ones who are like me, laugh out loud :P.
I mean, why do people get up early?? WHY? Health benefits - ah well! Accepted ... and what else? My school timing was 1230 to 630 pm .... my mother used to leave home between 930 and 10am, and for obvious reasons, I used to prefer getting up post she left home. I mean who wants to be asked 10,000 questions early in the morning?!! Dad used to love discussing his morning newspaper headlines with me .... and he mostly missed me for that. Housework or studies was never the reason ... Mom just didn't like someone lying half dead in the house until noon or beyond. Yes beyond 12pm, I mean why is it a problem?
The early risers actually treat the others like they were born on another planet. No, I am not an alien and I will not get up early. Hehe!!
Earlier it was only parents and now its my son ... God is probably giving me opportunities to sudharo myself and I am refusing to learn. Dev gets up quite early and has already given up on me... He goes downstairs to give company to his ever-awake Nani. And when I descend from my room....they look at me as if I had just murdered 4 people in my room, drank their blood and come down for more ... Hello??? I don't bother the early risers, nor do I question their habit (at least didn't, so far!!) ...
So the early risers, are the rich, good and the beautiful ones .... They have the advantage of finishing everything earlier in the day and at the same time get bored until the devils wake up to entertain them. It is practically impossible for a late riser to convert unless there is a life & death situation. For work, I leave home in time. While travelling outside Pune, I get up whatever time I have to and sometimes leave home as early as before 5 am. For exams, I used to get up at 3am to study. I can get up very early for picnics and outings. I used to manage a 7am shift at one time. But showing my face to the rising sun will happen only if needed.
However, biologically some bodies are not engineered to get up early. And some just love sleep ... I am probably one of them. I can doze off in a train, bus or a cab or an auto. I love to doze off when I am travelling to Bombay in the cab and its probably the most satisfying and intense sleep! I am sure God has the two groups wired differently. The early risers probably feel the same way about the other group. And no, we cant explain to anyone how peaceful it is to sleep with so much of noise and buzz around us!!! It probably works like a lullaby ... sachchi!!!
So dear early risers, keep the bhajans going on ..... keep nagging .... call us names .... hum nahi sudhrengein!!! Toxins can stay inside ... green tea hai na! Sun can smile at all the suryanamaskaris ... sandhya aarti hai na .... I am a proud kumbhakaran!!!!
Have a great week ahead guys!!
Between?
The rich and the poor ....
The good and the bad ....
The beautiful and the ugly .....
The fat and the thin ...
The man and the woman .....
Nahhhh .... the one thing that has been a tic in my life since I was a kid ....
"The early risers" vs the kumbhakarans / "sust" characters / lazy bums, i.e., "the late risers"!!!
**This post is strictly in favour of the ones who believe in getting up late.
Note - BELIEVE in getting up late. Its not an event that occurs on one weekend or only when you are tired. You believe in "not" seeing the morning sun, cos you lurveeeeeeeee your sleep :D
Torture used to be bestowed upon me by my parents until I started working ... every morning a bhajan used to be sung in the home .... 'uthja betaaaaa' .... 'dekh subah ho gayi' .... 'get up and have your breakfast' .... and after about an hour of nagging it used to come to ....'uthtee hai ke nahi?' ... and then Dad in my room!!! Khatam, up and out of my bed .... half awake ... pretending to be extremely sorry about getting up late, 'one more time' .... Ok, don't make faces now! And the ones who are like me, laugh out loud :P.
I mean, why do people get up early?? WHY? Health benefits - ah well! Accepted ... and what else? My school timing was 1230 to 630 pm .... my mother used to leave home between 930 and 10am, and for obvious reasons, I used to prefer getting up post she left home. I mean who wants to be asked 10,000 questions early in the morning?!! Dad used to love discussing his morning newspaper headlines with me .... and he mostly missed me for that. Housework or studies was never the reason ... Mom just didn't like someone lying half dead in the house until noon or beyond. Yes beyond 12pm, I mean why is it a problem?
The early risers actually treat the others like they were born on another planet. No, I am not an alien and I will not get up early. Hehe!!
Earlier it was only parents and now its my son ... God is probably giving me opportunities to sudharo myself and I am refusing to learn. Dev gets up quite early and has already given up on me... He goes downstairs to give company to his ever-awake Nani. And when I descend from my room....they look at me as if I had just murdered 4 people in my room, drank their blood and come down for more ... Hello??? I don't bother the early risers, nor do I question their habit (at least didn't, so far!!) ...
So the early risers, are the rich, good and the beautiful ones .... They have the advantage of finishing everything earlier in the day and at the same time get bored until the devils wake up to entertain them. It is practically impossible for a late riser to convert unless there is a life & death situation. For work, I leave home in time. While travelling outside Pune, I get up whatever time I have to and sometimes leave home as early as before 5 am. For exams, I used to get up at 3am to study. I can get up very early for picnics and outings. I used to manage a 7am shift at one time. But showing my face to the rising sun will happen only if needed.
However, biologically some bodies are not engineered to get up early. And some just love sleep ... I am probably one of them. I can doze off in a train, bus or a cab or an auto. I love to doze off when I am travelling to Bombay in the cab and its probably the most satisfying and intense sleep! I am sure God has the two groups wired differently. The early risers probably feel the same way about the other group. And no, we cant explain to anyone how peaceful it is to sleep with so much of noise and buzz around us!!! It probably works like a lullaby ... sachchi!!!
So dear early risers, keep the bhajans going on ..... keep nagging .... call us names .... hum nahi sudhrengein!!! Toxins can stay inside ... green tea hai na! Sun can smile at all the suryanamaskaris ... sandhya aarti hai na .... I am a proud kumbhakaran!!!!
Have a great week ahead guys!!
totally agree with u hiri...proud to be a late riser!!!
ReplyDeleteI am an early riser - but, I would give anything to wake up at noon or something just one day - just one damn day! It never happens :(
ReplyDeleteOne of these years, I am going to wake up whenever I do and take appropriate measures to get right back into bed - it's going to happen:)