The Next Thirty Days...Day 28 (Dozed off to sleep)

Well literally...I just dozed off to sleep yesterday and before I could realize I had missed writing the blog the next day was already up and smiling. And I too just smiled to myself. For I remembered those childhood days when me and my brother would put up our bed in front of the TV to catch the 9:30 p.m. movie playing on cable (yeah those days there were hardly any movie channels) only to doze off to sleep with the TV on.

The best part would dad coming home from night shift and innocently thinking that we are awake and knocking on the door only to realize that we had dozed off to sleep and he had no option but to open the door himself with the key that he used to carry. Of course this did not happen always though ...but it was fun. Fun falling asleep without even you realizing. Such sleep is really welcome. It really freshens you up.

The sleep (dozing off) usually catches up with us when we have had long day, did something we really enjoyed, did something in which were very much involved or other such things. In such instances all we have to do or rather all we do is just lie down on the bed and before we even realize we are fast asleep. When you wake up you just keep telling yourself...you didn't quite realize when you fell asleep. At times we share this with our near and dear ones too. Yesterday was a similar case too. And yes I enjoyed it.

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