Remember "Macbeth"? Shakespeare's comments in that analysis of 'over-vaulting ambition' which is the close relative of jealousy, duplicity and guilt are psychologically simply superb. Any basic book on psychology,too, would be enough to confirm the great dramatist's acumen.
Luckily, for me, sleep has never ever been a problem. I am blessed with a control over sleep that may not compare with Arjun or Bajirao, the great, but i am rather good at my control over sleep. In fact, during vacations, i am so busy with my reading and writing quietly that the curious and the inquisitive, not to forget the malicious and the jealous, may suspect that i am sleeping in the afternoon, late in to the morning, etc, etc, etc. Actually, there is nothing criminal in sleeping at whatsoever time in one's own bedroom. Even then, just to put the record straight, that never ever is the case with me.
Yet yesterday i felt so tired, what with staying awake almost the whole prior night so that the very early morning DES vehicle may not be missed, the day-long journey and the teaching, the fdp the moment i reached home, the constant worry at the back of the mind, the suspicious feel one gets of funny creeps of all varieties somehow trying to trap were together such a strong pill that i dozed off with a death-like sleep. I could thus absolutely understand the great American literary texts celebrating deep sleep!
No wonder, now i know how sleep is the best psychosomatic cure, that is, an inbuilt medicine that res(e)ts the body, the mind and the ever awake intellect!
Pratima@ the soothing balm of the soul, that is, sleep!
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