The virtue of Sleep

      Sleeping might serve the biological purpose but it also has the latent potential to serve an equally important social purpose. This purpose has never manifested itself considerably chiefly because of the untold harm inflicted upon it throughout the annals of mankind. Sleeping is the greatest virtue if you ask me love,honesty,altruism,kindness all conventionally so cherished the virtues seem dwarfed against it. Why? What's so special? OK let me start from somewhere, for example, primordial man didn't get any spare time, all day he searched for food,female and ate the food he collected. Gradually our primordial men due to his intellects devised techniques that reduced his drudgery and he started producing crops in less and less time and that too far more than he required, thus he started getting idle, experienced anything called boredom which otherwise was alien to him. He had two concerns side by side, first to kill his time and second to do something of the excessive crops he cultivated. So he started exchanging his extra crops for what he thought would help him kill the time i.e some thought living in a good hut would make him happier and if he is happy he would not feel boredom. Thus his anthropology changed our primordial man evolved into what is today called as 'social animal'. And still he is in quest to find more and more means to kill the boredom rightly justifying what Bertrand Russel said "To get out of the boredom, would be the greatest invention of mankind"

     But in this entire fuss men forget that their main purpose was to kill boredom. And sleeping is the other and perhaps better alternative to serve that purpose. If people develop a habit of sleeping(it's hard but my personal experience says its not that hard) when idle, all the civil problems resulting from the hyperactivity will eventually die out(though I don't guarantee other problems will not come out). Imagine a world where people sleep instead of rioting, instead of protesting violently, instead of killing each other, instead of the nations waging war with one another. Governments particularly like this idea because when people sleep they don't ask for water, they don't ask for employment, they don't ask for exam delay. So the Governments, instead of funding for temples and all craps, should develop sleeping shrines where people can sleep for unlimited times. An idiotic utopia may it seem but what better is our present world to forbid this experiment.

     But, hell this world has always been and will always be ruled by all the insomniacs. They will never sleep and never let others sleep. They will shout slogans in commercials to wake us up, they write poetry which spread the message of vigilance, they inflict lessons of wakefulness in the vulnerable minds of children, they will sing the virtues of wakefulness. But then who cares? The Snoozers don't retaliate because for even the retaliation you need to abandon sleep. The entire existence of the universe doesn't bother you once you fall asleep. If sleep is half-death, you half-reincarnate every morning.



     "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

_ E. B. White

(PS: IF you've followed me upto this line congrats for your patience and If any of the above lines stood convincing to you, you are a MORON.)