Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 233
Smug Sleepers
Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Smug Sleepers arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
Every January, the gym fills; by March, the regulars have the place to themselves again. The calendar changed nothing. The people who stayed simply stopped asking the calendar for permission.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. If this page made you think of one specific person, do not send it to them. Apply it to yourself first; that is how these things work.