I love sleeping....wish I could sleep for days together like Kumbkaran though I cant eat for days like him. If you ask my colleagues who accompany me for lunch or my roommates who patiently sit next to me waiting for me to finish my dinner they would say otherwise. They'll say I can eat for days too. People who actually donno me might think I eat a lot but the fact is I eat very slow. What my friends take 10 or 15 mins to finish eating, I take at least half an hr and in the worst scenario an hr(I know they would argue to put in a bigger figure) to finish. Days are rare when i actually finish it along with them, even rarer are the days when I finish b4 them....they call it a miracle. God bless their souls!!!
coming back to sleep... I would be the last one to wake up on most of the days in my house. How much ever I sleep I never seem to get enough of it. Even if I wake up in the afternoon I still look I could do with few more hrs of sleep. One reason could be Im a light sleeper...waking up at every li'l sound right from the creaking sound made my bathroom door, first sound (believe me when I say first) of my roommate's alarm, slammed doors of other bedrooms where dwell the morning raisers (I almost jump out of my bed every time a door is slammed) to the sound of footsteps on the staircase next to my bedroom window...no wonder I look so sleep lorn all the time.
I usually dont sleep in the afternoons during weekends or holidays though Im always sleepy. Its bcoz my afternoon naps are cursed! All my dearest friends who have long forgotten me not only remember me precisely at that fateful hour but also remember to call me and miraculously there is enough balance on their mobile phones to make the call
me: halooo
friend: Hey!!!!! How r u??? Long time isnt it??????? blah...blah...blah non stop for 5mins n ask then question I have been waiting for
so....what were u doing??
Me: was sleeping
Friend: Oh!! are you ok???
Me: Im fine...just taking a nap...thats all
Friend: oh ok
pause for few secs...expecting me to say something.....finally....
Friend: sleep well then...will talk to u later bye!
I mumble something n hang up b4 that person could think of saying anything more
With some struggle I manage to doze off again but my mobile rings yet again.... this is an endless cycle till I finally give up and get out of my bed.
At times even in the nights I find it difficult to sleep though every inch of my body is tired to the core and is begging for rest. Im not an insomniac though (how can I be one...huh!!!) It is when my brain refuses to retire for the day as it slept all day long in the office. Those are the times when more than a few of my gray cells are fired and words start flowing and my blog has a new entry. When the Sun would be getting ready to rise and shine melting away the night, darkness falls on me n I sleep only to be woken up by some creaking or slammed doors....signs of life stirring marking the beginning of yet another sleepy day.
"Eat like a hog and sleep like a log"I donno abt the first part but I wish the second half of this statement was true in my case. Blessed are those who sleep like logs and Im really jealous of you all!!