No Worries Sleep!

No Worries Sleep!

During my travels, whenever i saw homeless people and beggars sleeping on pavements of

busiest roads, i used to wonder how they get sleep with all the noice and heat around. No questions to animals. They can sleep wherever and whenever they want to. For me, animals are real monks of our world who have attained and maintaining highest level of spirituality. I got to experience my first 'No Worries Sleep' when i visited Bangalore last week.

After late night work on front page design of my first novel, we had to get up early on lazy Sunday to get the draft design ready before visiting senior artist Dr. Subash Kambara for final changes. My friend and talented artist Suresh Arkasali was busy scheduling his day long work. Unfortunately no one from his contacts were picking his calls. From 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM, we were just wandering around Vijanagar water tank, Bangalore waiting for Dr. Subash Kambara who was supposed to meet us at 10:00. But he was no where in the scene. We decided to catch him at his home and get our work done. We took an auto and reached his place. He was about to have his breakfast. He was surprised to see us coming without notice. Later we all sat in his ground floor art room and finalized the design. To our irritation, calls started pouring during our work from those people who were not picking our calls in the morning. That was our turn to take revenge, we didn't pick there calls and made them wait. 

After completion of front page design, Suresh took off to meet editor of daily news paper Vishwavani, leaving us behind to wait for his return at Kamakya theater junction @ Kathriguppe, Bangalore. Me and Suresh's student Ravi challenged the summer heat by having 3 glasses of cold badam milk. We found a shadow place and settled on the pavement of closed Raymonds cloths showroom. Ravi was busy looking pictures of mine in Facebook. I was busy looking at hasty people in the rush hour traffic with non stop honking noice. So called educated community was in hurry to break traffic rules. I was wondering what can be most emergency work they should attend to by risking their lives at Bangalore hideous traffic. I was reminded with my life in Bangalore. To the contrary, i was using bi-cycle and used to cover near destinations by walk. 

It was lunch time. I was hungry and was feeling sleepy. I advised Ravi to come with me and

have lunch. Ravi was adamant not to have lunch without his teacher. I was lazy to go alone and skipped lunch too. Watching pale people was not so exciting and i lost the fight with my sleep. I used my bag as pillow and dozed off on the pavement of showroom right at the Kamakya junction. I was able to enjoy my first ever "No Worries Sleep". I was not worried about what by-passers might think about me. I didn't have any identity, didn't bother about my status, no worries on pending office work, no worries on my constantly declining bank balance, was not worried about past, present and future. I didn't fear about onroad robbers. Long running 'Tolerance Vs Intolerance' hungama didn't face any threat to my sleep. As per onlooker Ravi, i had first class roaring snoring sleep for more than an hour. When i got up, the world looked more beautiful and more peaceful. I took an auto to satellite bus stand and got into a bus and traveled back to Mysore hoping that i continue to get 'No Worries Sleep' all my life.

With Love,

RaDa