SLEEP IS A BLESSING

 

SLEEP IS A BLESSING

Sleep at night is rest, relaxation, repose and slumber. During the day for a short time,  it is siesta.

Sleep is the opposite of work which consumes energy, creates tiredness and stress. Sleep reproduces energy, relaxation and ability to work again whether it is physical or mental.

Health experts advise seven to ten hours of sleep every day.

 If you have a non-guilty mind and well-nourished body sleep will come naturally; it won’t  need  artificial aids including sleeping pills.

Guilty people divorce sleep.

Insufficient sleep becomes responsible for various health problems like tiredness, stress, fatigue, inefficiency and anxiety. To avoid these symptoms sleep deficiency must be made up  by sleep itself because medicines don’t help sufficiently.

Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) says blessings on him who first invented sleep.---It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak. It is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It makes the shepherd equal to the monarch, and fool to the wise.

According to the English poet-dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616) “our foster-nurse of nature is repose.”

Finally, the following words of the Persian poet Sheikh Saadi Shirazi (1210-?) “God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed” and of the English writer and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) “one hour’s sleep before midnight, is worth two after.”  

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G.R.Kanwal

!5^th March 2024