Does it happen with you that in the midst of the alarm clock’s irksome ringing, you plead for five extra minutes of some sweet sleep? Does your heart beg for five minutes out of the whole day so that you can complete the unfinished dream you were seeing moments before the alarm rang?
But with the alarm’s continuous pestering, you ultimately have to give up and get up. Well, it is not the alarm clock’s fault, it doesn’t know how dearly you wanted to get back to your deep slumber; it only knows that time will not wait for you, we have to catch up with it.
We often undergo the same feeling in an opposite situation, where we don’t have to get up but sit down. Sit down to work. Being a student, I often encounter such times when I have to go back to my studies after a short break. Sitting in front of the television screen or the mobile phone or the laptop, or being engaged in any other sorts of entertainment, it gets difficult to get back to work. It gets difficult to pull yourself out of that enjoying state of mind and put yourself back into the productive one. Our mind makes it harder. It compares and illustrates the times of jolly entertainment as a colourful rainbow and the times of getting back into the mode of work where we have to focus as a monotonous black and white. It requires momentary but strong determination and guts to walk out of that relaxed state of mind but without spending those extra five minutes. Where these five minutes come into our mind, our will begins wavering. After all, what difference will five minutes make? They will make. Repeatedly spending the extra five minutes will keep adding up and will end up wasting our time. Our backlog of work isn’t aware that we are interested in joining bits and pieces of short moments where we enjoy ourselves; the work on its part is pending as a whole and the clock ticks away on its quick pace; we are supposed to catch up with it. We have to realize that those extra five minutes neither give relaxation nor provide relief as our one eye is constantly fixed on the clock to see when the five minutes will get over. And when finally, we do sit down to work, the mind is clouded with the entertaining recollections from the break which we had just taken.
Remember:
It takes five minutes to stop entertaining, an hour to forget entertainment and the double to regain the lost momentum.
We begin to work and time passes on and we get exhausted and again the time comes for a short break and then it again becomes difficult coming back…