Guilty Afternoons

There is something about afternoons which is very tempting and at the same time might be quite boring for a regular office goer. In my city, afternoons bring about a different flavor altogether. When it should ideally be the peak hours of work, the city suddenly takes a lazy turn and enters the lanes of dizzy afternoons. My city is a metropolitan with millions of people always busting around the streets from dawn to dusk. But unnaturally enough the afternoons makes the lanes of Kolkata a complete fairy tale. The sound of birds chirping and the quietness of the air, reminds me a similar afternoon when my mother used to come home from school and read from the new book she bought. Then I grew older but the mystery of the afternoons still captures my imagination.

It is definitely a sin to sleep and read in the afternoons. When the entire country is working their head out, on the roads, it is definitely a crime to relax with an empty mind and flap through the pages of magazine or a novel. A grown-up man should not indulge in such sins as it will make the person counter productive in nature. But somehow, there is always that call that I can't ignore. My childhood afternoons, my boyhood afternoons helps me to color my present ones.

 Wait stop for a while, it is not only the afternoons of my past which drags me further down. I have spent tremendous afternoons (hoping to spend more) with a wonderful lady (who was just a girl when I met her and presented her an afternoon poem) which I will cherish for life.

Yes the afternoons are quite, the silence in the lanes of Kolkata makes me unnecessarily romantic.  But the most thrilling part is that, this time gives a guilty pleasure. A sweetness of doing nothing when everyone else is busy, a hidden pleasure, as in i have stole some time which should never have been stolen in the first place. It gives me a sensation that if my first grade, teacher knew about she would have definitely scolded me for wasting such valuable time. Well at the end of the day, we all go to sleep, tired and depressed. So why not take a break in between and get a sleep while you are still happy and do nothing. Think , sleep, read and eat (preferably chocolates) and capture the time for you own. Yes time is limited and that does not mean that you should pour the entire jug in pursuing a career, which leaves you mentally drenched-out at the end of everyday. Every emotion is important, so feel guilty by doing nothing, in the hazy yellowish afternoons of Kolkata (or anywhere else you stay).