59.0 Why You Need An Alarm? Fighting For Alarm: The Samurai Way

First of all, I wanted to say Sorry...I could not work on my blog for the last couple of weeks due to busy schedule. When I was looking at the views per day also, I saw a difference. But I did not have a good time to work on a new article for you all. I could allocate time. But there should be a relax mind to come up with a good article. I was not in that status, and finally, I could not write a good article for about two weeks. So, this would be the last article for this year 2019. As today is the 24th of December, now you may don't have a good time to read this article due to a busy festival schedule. But you can read it later. I hope that you all will come back to my blog and read the latest.

 

I wanted to bring some memories of something that you hate, but you cannot avoid it in your life. I know that you wanted to throw it away for millions of times. But you did not do it yet. Same here. I also wanted to break and throw it away out of my window. But still, it is with me. By looking at the topic above, you know about this terrible and supportive guy. Lol... Most probably you may also have many stories to share as all of us cannot wake up in the morning without the support of an alarm.

 

I would like to start my alarm story from the very beginning. My mother was my alarm when I was a child. As you all know the very first alarm ringing sound is low and it gets increased gradually to the next levels if we could not react to it.  But my mother did not have this setting and her sound consists of high volume from the very beginning. I could say that it is a scream and she always thought that she could not wake us up with a morning greeting. She was right. When she asked us to wake up in the neutral volume, she had to come to our room for three to four times. Finally, she scolded us and it was our morning greeting. Lol...

Sometimes we begged for a few minutes. But it was not possible with this alarm. It reminded us of our to-do list also. However, this was pressure for the alarm too. One day she did not remind me continuously and let us wake up at any time. I think on that day it was enough for her. So, we also slept peacefully without trouble. But I did not go to school on that day. Lol… So, it was a memorable day for me in my school era.

Sometimes my father came to wake up us when my mother could not handle the situation anymore. He was different and he did not scold us. Instead of that, he gave warnings. However, it was a powerful strategy, and we could not ignore his warnings. After moving to that boarding house for Advance level exams, I missed my parents. They could not phone me in the morning as we did not use mobile phones in those days. If they need to contact me, they had to call the landline of the boarding owner. So, they did not need to trouble her in the morning.

However, it was not a big deal in the morning as the other's sound was a reason for me to wake up. Nobody could sleep once they wake up and after switching on lights in the room. So, I did not need the support of an alarm because of that crowd.

But all of us used an alarm clock to wake up early morning for our studies. Each individual had separate alarms to wake up at different times. Some of them studied till midnight and some of them wake up in the early morning. However, morning alarms were the most annoying and craziest things for us. It annoyed each other. Sometimes two to three alarms rang at once. The most amazing thing was everybody wakes up except the owner of the alarm. 

Therefore, that alarm switched off by itself automatically after snoozing for a few times. Such situations made us crazy and we blamed each other. We asked them to throw the alarm away if they could not wake up or switch it off. So, we threatened some of our friends. But sometimes it happened to me also. My alarm clock was annoying other's sleep. Therefore, nobody could maintain promises, and everything controlled by our sleep. 

 

As we did not have mobile phones in those days, we used different clocks for alarms. Among them, one of our friends had a clock, and it had an antique look. It was a big clock than the other's clocks. It was an old-fashioned clock and nobody know how to manage it except our friend. Though we criticized that look, our friend did not change that clock. It was with her till we left the place. She kept it in her bed. Once we blamed her once she could not switch off it on time, she kept it in her hand to switch off quickly. Lol...

One day we heard that alarm clock's sound, and as usual, it rang a few times. It kept snoozing and ringing without the interaction of our friend. As there's no stop I got angry and I wanted to throw it away. I wanted to slap my friend as well. So, I switched on the room's light. What did I see? I could not believe my eyes. My friend was sitting on the bed by removing some parts of the clock. Her eyes were not fully opened. 

Though I speak to her, she did not respond to me and she removed the parts of the clock. But it rings continuously. Once I saw this fun thing, I could not stop my laugh. Again, I spoke to my friend. Then she said that she cannot find the button to switch off. Lol...  So, she removed all the buttons to switch off the alarm. Though we thought that she would buy a new one, she used the same alarm by fixing things again. So, we gave a nickname to her and it was 'Elamaya'. 

Now most of us don't need a separate clock for our alarm as we can get that job via our phones. I'm using energetic songs, music as my alarm tone to enjoy it and hear it. Recently, I saw a Facebook post shared by one of my friends. It says that an alarm tone is background music for the dream she sees. Lol...