“Wake up, wake up, its a brand new day….” My phone blurted for the third time. I felt annoyed. How many times have I thought to change this alarm tone? I was too lazy even for that, I reminded myself. 8.30 it is. Thanks to previous night’s movie, I slept around 3. But this is not late for a Saturday morning in a metro, I told myself. I stared at my friend’s bed. It is empty. Oh! Yes. He didn’t come last night. I got up and dragged myself to washroom. It is barely 5 steps away, but took me a whole minute to get there. I am not in any hangover, just that I am yet not awake. Another twenty minutes passed before I got ready for the day.
I sat on my bed. What’s the day’s plan? Lots of things to do. I haven’t started writing the report of my recent field study. The deadline is revised for next Friday. That apparently was not a good idea. It just make me feel lazy to start. Ha! there is an exam on Tuesday, School Education and Systems- a subject I have not read at all during the semester. There are at least 20 readings in it and I will not be able to do it in any case. If I start today, I may finish 4 -5 readings max. Hmm…. And the Sociology reading for Monday. Paulo Freire’ Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I better start it now. I opened my laptop waited for it to start. The thirty seconds wait seemed be to very long. Why is it taking so long? Are not machines designed to be fast? They should not act like humans. I felt silly for all these thoughts. Finally it is ready. I went to the folder and opened the pdf. The page count at the bottom said 30. I did not hang around long after that. I shut down the computer and I went back to sleep.
Śrīnāth Mohandās 