A Random Morning

Well, there must be some truth in the phenomenological claim that, humans only perceive meanings of things around them, and not the things themselves. Because there is nothing alarming in a pair of short and long arms innocuously pointing at two different digits inside a clock. But as soon as he saw them with his sleepy half-open eyes, damn if he didn’t take it to be a full-blown emergency.

For him the peculiar positioning of the dials did not mean it’s 9 am, but it meant that, he will have low energy and stomach ache in the afternoon because obviously, he will have to skip breakfast, it meant that, he will have to be anxious all his way to the office, as he will be forced to drive faster than he is comfortable with, and worst it meant that his manager might put a bad word about him to the higher management, which might hamper his chances of becoming a manager himself.

Thanks to all that, if there was a Guinness world record for quickly getting out of bed, that day, he must surely have broken it. Almost in one swift motion he jumped out of his bed, grabbed his phone from the nearby table, and texted, “Good morning dove, have a nice day sunshine”. He never forgets to do that, and although he was in a hurry he couldn’t stop himself from first thinking, and then imagining, how in less than a couple of months he won’t have to grab his phone at all to do this morning ritual.

Instead, he could just turn to the other side of his bed and say good morning. Or better still he could not only turn but also lean to the other side of his bed and then, off course then, no words will be needed to express his love, none indeed. Unfortunately for him as he was reveling in the future certainty of this heavenly phenomenon, he happened to be standing in front of his bedroom mirror, and that was a mistake. As soon as he lifted his eyes towards the mirror, what reflected back to him looked very little like a grown man, and very much like a “new born puppy”. “Heaven forbids”! He shouted. Slightly embarrassed as he dashed out of his bedroom, he glanced around as to make sure, no one else saw his cute pup avatar. And such was the manner in which he spent his that particular random morning.