Always Aditya

There must be a time when you were so anxious that you could not sleep the night before any particular event. The day after that particular tension or excitement filled night before the expected event must be either so tiring from lack of sleep or full of dreams. I never ever experienced it till the time I was expecting my exam results. I could not get even a wink of  sleep the night before. One thing I can say is that I was not at all nervous regarding my exams and was not thinking about them but I was not getting sleep either. Finally, I got up at 4am and worked on the computer. I could get some sleep finally at six in the morning only to get up after one-hour. My results were not good but one thing I found hard was to control my sleep during the office hours the next day. Neither could I get any sleep nor could I get results in my favour. That was bad night and day included. Does the night before any event feel different to different people or is it same with all people? Below are few instances, which I could think of: -

Night before your marriage would be like a new world ready to be unfolded. The feeling of getting married weighs down many people with great anticipation right from the minute the marriage function starts to the night when the couple experience ecstasy.

Night before you are leaving for overseas studies, the feeling of going to a more developed place for higher studies keeps you going good but at the same time leaving the place you were born and brought up might leave you with mixed feeling. The thought of leaving your parents, friends, relatives for quite a big part of time and staying at a place unknown to you both in culture, language and law might be hard to get out of your mind. Feeling of both excitement and anxiety, happiness coupled with curiosity would be taking over your mind.

Night before you are about to be honoured with a degree to enable you to go out into the corporate world, the feeling itself is a great thing in itself. It is what you must have been waiting for years and when it is actually about to happen, the feeling of being some one important might just engulf your whole night.

Night before your wife is going to deliver a baby boy and the fatherly feeling comes all over you with great expectation of having a baby. The anxiety of what would be the sex of the baby would also be severe on all the family members. It is only the doubt and anxiety created for almost nine months start to show on the face with doctors instilling hope, anxiety and strength into the waiting family members of the would be mother. Feeling of would be mother’s cannot be explained in words.

Night before you are to be transferred to another place on a work obligation makes you feel as though you are leaving your friends and well-wishers forever to go to a new place for making new friends. The feeling of leaving your old place and friends to a new place for making new friends is not easy to explain. It has to be experienced.

Night before you represent your country in a sport might make you get the responsibility feeling along with the feeling of the burden bestowed upon you to handle the teams position in a best way. The feeling of playing with one of your idols in the same match, matching shoulder to shoulder with him, trying to learn what ever possible from him along with the thought of playing in front of a phenomenally huge crowd is so great to be experienced.

Night before you are going to retire from the sport permanently might leave many in that nostalgic feeling of having played for many years for their country along with other greats from your country. At the dawn of the your last day in that sport, you will totally severe all the links as far as the playing is concerned.

Night before you are going to give your first concert in front of many people in a stadium or a ground, the feeling of getting the name and fame might even leave you floating. The thought of people clapping and encouraging your play will itself be a great inspiration to play well.

Night before you are going to propose to your sweetheart might leave you with many unanswered and unnecessary thoughts ranging from the girl not accepting to slapping you in front of all the people. It can also be filled with thoughts of what to do once she accepts and reciprocates the feeling to you. I don’t know how it feels.

Night before you are about to get the divorce sanctioned might leave many of you happy that you are getting freed from the relationship but it need not necessarily mean you are happy. You may have feelings towards your spouse and it may even make you feel bad that you are going out of the relationship.

Night before you are about to get eloped with your girl friend might leave you many disturbing thoughts of leaving and failing yourparents along with breaking their trust on you. Also the thought of what would you both do once you elope might be a challenging thought in itself.

Night before the next day what would be the state of mind of a soldier presenting himself totally to the sake of his country. That particular day he must have survived the enemy’s bullets but he himself would not be sure whether he would make it to his camp again alive the next night. But may be after some time all the soldiers get used to all this and must be sleeping as though they have just arrived from their work.

One great quality of great people is that they never lose their sleep over anything. Like India’s Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi during his fight for freedom along with more than a million people or Winston Churchill during the World War. Every event has a night before and interestingly, the night before I was about to upload this article on my site, I was banging my head to write something witty as a conclusion but all I could manage is to lose my sleep over this thought. So no witty conclusion. Only plain and non-witty conclusion.