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Breaking Rules

Few days back, I had my third semester exams and I had to travel alone to my examination centre. Moreover, I had to travel by train to reach my examination centre. My exam was going to start at 2pm. When I reached at the railway station, it was already 12.30pm. Surprisingly, the entire platform was crowded. It was like everybody had decided to travel with me in the same train like I am some kind of celebrity. Anyways, the truth behind the crowd struck me when I saw the indicator. It showed 10.35 ST. The trains were late by almost 2 hours. How come the trains want to be late when I want it to be on time? I wanted to do my eleventh hour revision after reaching my examination centre. But with the crowd I was surrounded there, it did not seem like I would even reach there on time to give my exams. I had no option but to wait for the 10.35am train. The 10.35 train did come after 10mins but the only problem was; it was so crowded that by the time the train left, only few were able to get ou...

Sleeping Rights

Yesterday night, I was finding it too difficult to sleep. I wanted to sleep, it was already 1.30am but I could not sleep. I ended up shifting in my bed all night long. I don’t know why I wasn’t feeling sleepy. It’s weird but when others want me to be awake I want to sleep and when the nature gives me time to sleep, when no one is bothering me, I don’t know where my sleep runs away. While lying awake all night long, I realized how important is to feel sleepy when you want to sleep. It’s like people who can sleep without any efforts have a blessing that they themselves are not aware of. And as the night kept progressing I gave my mind the liberty to wander aimlessly. And not to my surprise, my mind came up with a mind blowing idea. My mind said how great it would be if you could get sleep on fixed times only. Like from night 10 to morning 8. When the clock struck 10 you will sleep then and there. It’s like you know in sleeping beauty fable where the whole city sleeps except that here we ...