A difference in the lifestyles.

When I wanted a bon-fire lit up, I started searching for wood. The cold weather was just right to light up a bonfire, feel its warmth and hear its crackle. It was night time, around 10:30 PM and the night was getting real chilled up. I could hear the crickets making a racket and looked up at the stars. The air is so pure at my grandpa's farmhouse, it makes you feel like you're breathing life after living in a gas chamber city for a long time.

So anyway, I was just wondering where the farmhand could be, when I realised that he must be fast asleep.....it must be midnight for him. I didnt wake him up....I knew his lifestyle and he slept early and got up early as well.

For people living here (like the farmhand), life is very simple.....Sleep early at around 9 o'clock.....get up at 0530 hrs fresh after a great sleep.....go out to work on the farmland.....have something to eat in between.....work again.....lunch at around 12:30 noon.....then a power nap....work again till around 6 in the evening until the time it starts becoming dark.......dinner at 8 o'clock and then sleep at 9. Its a simple lifestyle.

Eat simple food of bhakris, chappatis and sabjis and rice.....breathe in pure air, live in the vast open space and have no fantastic desires....

For the average service class man in the city.....its something like this.....Sleep late at around 12 AM or probably next morning......get up all drowsy due to lack of sleep....a hurried breakfast......off to work....probably after travelling by local transport or through crowded roads...reach office....lunch at around 1, 1:30, 2 or mebbe just a hurried meal.....after this you'll feel drowsy again....but cant sleep....so drink tea or coffee twice or thrice....work around till 7:30 or 8:00 or even later.....then start off home....till the time you reach home.....ur bushed...Have a quiet dinner......watch TV or surf the net later on in your 'free time' for 'relaxation'. Sleep

Eating outside food is a must at times.....breathing polluted air is a norm, living in the vast expanse of the cement jungle is part of life........there is a lot of money and yet no one is satisfied...there are still those fantastic desires....there are a lot of facilities for easy living and yet life is tougher.........

I aint saying which is better.....its just a comparison.....a comparison between two totally different lifestyles.....