Early morning journey to the university is often adventurous in its own sense.
Today, during my travel to the university, I observed two sleeping beauties on board belonging to two very different classes. One of the lady in her early thirties was dressed in a heavily embroidered dress with the classic white coat - the symbol for Doctor here in Pakistan. Nothing from her persona said she was a doctor except her coat. The second sleeping beauty was clad in a black gown, her face hidden behind a veil. I realized the second lady's slumber only when I occupied the seat next to her and she continuously drooped on me in her over-whelming sleep. All through my hour's journey, I saw both these women occupied in troubled sleep like they were deprived of the night. The jerks of the public transport seldom allows peaceful sleep, but if the sleeper is pure, even accidents are insufficient to wake them up!
If I had seen this yesterday, it would not have been so hard to digest since the day before was the religious event of "Shab-e-Baraat" where many occasional Muslims pull an all-nighter in prayers for the hope of getting their sins forgiven. But today, it seemed a little out of place to see two sleeping beauties together in the same bus.
I believe the culprit for this lack of sleep, other than the deteriorating economic conditions forcing people to do multiple jobs, is because of the electricity shortage the authorities claim proudly while justifying the load-shedding. Shameful though it is, with the abundant resources Pakistan is blessed with, electricity shortage is actually a question mark on Pakistan's talent and capability.
Peace.
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