A sense of time!

A sense of time!

The day started a bit differently. Someone with a phone decided to check if good Ol' Rizwan was still alive and kicking in his bed and called me up at 8 in the morning. Yes - it is usually the time of the day (or should I say night!) when my dreams get started and I look forward  (with my inner eye of course) to couple of hours of more sleep. As such, I put down the phone a minute later and looked at the plastic clock near my bed. It was grinning wildly, with an incorrect time. It has been doing this for a while now - and there's a story.

The story is simple - it no longer works. It has been as static as the pyramids for almost a month now. And there is a reason it no longer runs - it is devoid of a battery. I am highly used to keeping a sense of time. My first wrist watch was brought when I was still wearing shorts to school (I moved to pants when I moved to sixth standard - so thats saying something) and I always had a trend of keeping a keen track of time. During those years in school I somehow realized that having a sense of time is really important and managing time is one of the most callous virtues in life. I am a stickler for punctuality and there has been more than one instance where I dropped out of a plan because the other party didn't turn up in time.

Years rolled by and the boy in shorts grew up to be a man which is me. I started working for a living and I had two wrist watches and a mobile to keep track of time. Sleeping at night, without the wrist watches (I have seen some people wear wrist watches during sleep - I do not do this) and the mobile phone was always a problem. I finally got myself a cheap clock that I kept near my bed. Its the thing I normally see first once I wake up. There is a alarm functionality in the clock but I seldom use it. I like the accuracy of my mobile phone a tad better than an analog stick which goes roundabout in the bed-clock. Even if the alarm is ringing and I wake up at the other side of the bed, I always look up to my bed-clock to see if my mobile phone has been accurate. Till date, it always has been.

The clock died a sudden death like all battery failures. I still haven't got myself to put in a new battery. I still haven't forgotten to look at it every morning. It still grins.