I know I haven’t written a single substantial blog till now .So let me start with this At the time of writing it ..i am feeling very sleepy…;).Anyways…The title of the blog is copied from a play of shakespeareJulius caesar and these line were spoken by a very well known (historically as well as literally) character Brutus.
Sleep , as we all know is a favorite past time of more than 95% percent population and nearly 100% of us(i mean youth).Why I say nearly would be clarified soon.To start with ..i remember i used to sleep for 10-11 hours when i was in class 6-7-8, because at that time I believed that atleast this much sleep is indispensible for me , which is what i recently read in the newspaper(was a bit elated at this…i know it wasn’t worth!).Then came my boards years ..class 9th and 10th,i reduced my sleeping hours to 8 hours, because i had to study then and it was from then that i started believing in the saying jo sowat hai woh khowat hai,jo jaagat hai woh pawat hai(those who sleep loses while those who doesnt gains ).I have always been a morning study fanatic so quite regularly i used to get up at 5 in summers and enjoy the serenity of summer morning .Towards the end of class 10th…i got a bit insomniac and it was then i realized the importance of sound sleep because of this my academic results were effected my preboards were ruined due to this.At that time i prayed that this should not happen during boards time ..and fortunately it doesn’t happened .This was the time i became familiar with boards fever .Anyways ..that is a different matter altogethar and would provide fodder for my next blog!!
Then came class 11th…i suddenly started feeling myself academically very uncaptivated..there was not much to rote and almost no pressure to perform well in exams..so i again fell back to my norm of 10 hour sleep.I still got up early in the morning , but studied very little and most of the time i ended up watching TV !!Have u ever watched it 5 o’clock in morning ??It is so iconoclastic( i apologize for exaggerating..but i think so)
Class 12th..boards ..career..so much of pressure on two fronts , it should have been even more cumbersome and hectic than class 10th..but i dont know why i didn’t feet even as much pressure as class 10th.I was far more relaxed and continued the way i did in class 11th.Now i developed a new habit of getting up and than again sleeping ..i enjoy it a lot .Still , at the time of jee..i sacrificed my innate desires significantly (mind you ..not completely) and somehow managed to crack both jee and boards with a very little amount of efforts .
And now comes the most interesting part ..after coming to IIT.. my sleeping habits have changed drastically, i would rather say that they have metamorphosized into some inexplicable panache.Arguably i can claim that no fresher has changed his sleeping habits as much as me.There have been times at home when i get to bed at 9.My routine time was around 10..and to remain awaken after 11 was not known to me .I couldn’t imagine how people can study till 2 or 3 in the morning .When i came to iit , initially i used to get up around 6 in morning, after being to bed at around 12 ..six hours sleep was far more less for me than anybody else ..but i thought that this is the way iitians live ..:D.My classes were in the morning and i couldn’t understand why others set up there alarms at 7 in morning because by that time i would anyhow be awaken..i was not at all habitual to sleeping so late !!
P.S – I am continuing almost after 2 hours .
Then as the semester went ..i eventually became acquaited with sleeping habits of iitians ..yet , i wasn’t ready to sacrifice my breakfast..which is available only till 9 AM .So somehow i managed to get up at 8:30, only on days when my morning was free..otherwise i was a regular one at 8 AM lectures ..and that too on time !!Those days i used to sleep at around 1 AM and get up around 7:30..so not much of squandering away at night .So finally sem got over and i went home .
Now there was a problem ..my parents sleep around 10 and I was never in the mood to sleep at ten..but i was constrained :(..and so tried to change my habit and made myself accustomed to be at bed by eleven.But it was not to be followed for long ..as the winter breaks were hardly a month long and soon i was back to iit.
What followed here absolutlely contradicts me ..during the harsh winters, i used to be bed after 11 ..pretending to study whole night ..but actually was fast asleep at 12 and woke up as late as possible .The biggest hindernace was that this time in the morning i had pracs and just cant afford to miss them at the expense of my sleep .But dont know what happened after minor 1 ..i have never slept before 3 !!And only two days were there(in a week) when i did breakfast in morning …on monday and tuesday..never gone to class of CSL at 8 on monday..i hardly remember any.At present ..i have a problem waking up at 9..dont feel like having breakfast .
I strongly feel that sleeping for than five hours during your college life is a shear waste of time .You have so many fronts to conquer … which are far more worth than sleep.I literally get infuriated when after the exams people say “i would sleep” , i just hate them.I have started sleeping for six hours now ..but i still feel that i am waisting my time .
And very lately ..i have been sleeping in the evening too!!I dont want too …but somehow i fall asleep as soon as i reach my room.I avert ciasta too.But my afternoon lectures have taught me that it isn’t as bad as it was earlier to me .I am habitual to sleeping in short nags of 10 to 20 minutes ..i feel highly energetic after that..very refreshing as well.
I think have craped enough..was just trying to lenghten it up..so that my blog page seem good and professional enough and in the process i ended up in this .I have to study for quiz as well right now ..so ending a bit abruptly .
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