Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Me and the Library

Every 3 out of 4 people in this library are asleep (that includes the staff and me too). Am sitting in a private library where only people who are preparing for PG entrance(MEDICAL) and those studying for CA exams are allowed to join, at a small fee (500 rupees/ month - which is not even close to being small , keeping in mind that I am unemployed now).
My eyes refuse to stay open, and my body lurches forward to let me sleep on the table. I start having doubts that whether the muscles of the back and eyes are involuntary, when my brain sends a alarm.. which says "Abhishek!!!! Wake up!"...
Me and Libraries never got along well... I still remember going to the "central library" in my college only when I wanted to sleep , and my roommate nicknaming harrisons' textbook of medicine as "alprax".
The best part of the library is that I can sit and study in the huge garden in front of it. In this garden, I've seen squirrels, garden lizards, and Sparrows (I really thought they were extinct!!!)
The cool breeze, the softness of the grass, the smell of soil when the garden is being watered.... these are really small things that make me happy. I am looking at the line of ants trying to carry food. Am amazed at their industriousness. Don't they get lazy like people???
Don't ants bribe other ants to escape from work?
Don't ants make excuses to escape work?
Well, why is it that people hate work so much??? (Actually why do I hate studying so much?)
Suddenly I hear a very loud distinct voice from the skies above, "People don't work hard because I take special care of them. They are just following the rule of natural selection "survival of the meanest- lazy- buggers" .
My neck starts paining as I crane to try to look for the source of the voice, and I snap out of my beautiful dream into the sleepy library.

Whoever said that sleep is not contagious, has never been to a library.