I need to wake up. To welcome the dawn. To let the excruciating night go. Oh, but wait, I haven't slept the whole night! Is this how Insomniacs feel? Live? Tried all tricks to trick my mind into slumber. Tossed and turn. Tossed and turned again. Until my arms pricked my shoulder. Until my waist bone pricked my stomach. Until my spine went spineless. A part of smile seems to control, cajole and hurt me. For it traces rapidly before I can stop it, With thoughts picked up from different departments of mind. It digs deep. Into the ocean of unrelated events. I block it. Alas! Futile. It sneaks into neighboring neuron. Seduces couple of them. Copulates. Creates a new one. Ah! Now I have to block this too! And then when I do. Teases me. Tears me. Like the boon of Raktabeej, one drop of thought begets to thousand more and more. The clock strikes 3. The night's moving away. I yell. I cry. I want to sleep. I want to sleep. I decide to pact. I
This article was first published on MarketingBuzzar.com A housewife, better to be called as the homemaker has come from a humble background living a lifestyle somewhere revolving around frugality all through her childhood and adolescence. She got married in her early twenties and she expected a better life hereafter. But problems continued. She couldn’t buy what she desired and aspired because of limited bandwidth to spend money the way she wished. Evidently she had children whose future, according to her depended upon her ability to cut-down costs. She had to care about the rising daily expenses and then decide when a big ticket purchase like Television, refrigerator, music system or washing machine had to be made. One aspect that I am interested in presenting is her introduction to technology. Probably the first introduction to technology was to home appliances like mixer, washing machine, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner; mostly related to what was supposedly her domain- kit