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Sunday, July 15, 2001
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Why you should...
...not be an early riser

  • The early bird may be catching the worm, but who wants the worm?

  • Why compete with the rooster? After all, you are human and he is just a bird.

  • Only the intellectually challenged feel the need to get up at insane hours to prove the adage ‘early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise’ right and then fail so miserably.Illustration by Sandeep Joshi

  • Those who get up early are still in those prehistoric times when human activity was possible only during daylight. The invention of electricity has not registered on these dimwits.

  • You don’t want to miss out on the groovy night life.

  • You won’t have to suffer from overnight hangovers.

  • Why add more hours to your working day by starting off early.

  • Who’ll watch all those late-night movie shows if you turn into bed at nine?

  • When it’s more romantic watching the sunset, why bother to see the sunrise?

  • Your partner may seek out someone else for moonlight dinners if you’re the early-to-bed and early-to-rise type.

  • You can gaze at the stars late into the night while those who get up early may end up seeing stars during the day.

  • You can be an owl and still have a lark.

  • You can dream longer. In fact, if you slumber well past sunrise, you can even qualify to be a day dreamer.

  • When you can hop into a gym any time of the day why bother to go for a jog at the sound of cock-a-doodle-doo?

  • In a country where punctuality is not a virtue why shock people by being early?
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