Tik Tik Tik Tik !!!
Suddenly you wake up from your state of deep slumber to this polyphonic sound that you have been accustomed to since years. But have you ever wondered how have we become accustomed to this sound which helps us in starting our day? Almost every person in the 21st century has been using alarms. Some have the traditional alarm clock on their table or some use the application in their smartphones which further comes up with features that make your alarm experience less dreadful. As we wake up to this tone, our brain is notified that now it's time to start your day and from a state of total unconsciousness your brain enters a state of total alertness!
There are people who get up before the set time on the alarm in a state of total anxiety and there are people who wake up past the alarm or don't even bother to wake up after snoozing it. We have been setting the alarm daily before we
fall asleep and hit on the snooze button in the morning in the hope of getting those five minutes of extra sleep. But this has not always been the case.
Even before the introduction of steel or plastic alarms, people used creative ways as alarms. The Sun was considered to be the noiseless type of alarm that helped people get up by the sun rays in
the morning and start with their daily activities. In 428 BC, PLATO,
a Greek philosopher, had invented a water vessel alarm which came
to be known as the first awakening device in human history. After that the bell clocks and the tower clocks came into the picture.
These were rang by few men at particular period of time of the day.
Later after the Industrial Revolution, as more and more industries
and factories started coming up, this gave rise to the number of
workers and so the industries started having knocker ups. They were hired men who used to bang on the doors of the workers in order to wake them up for work. This was the practice used so that the workers don't end up late for their work. But eventually, the knocker ups couldn't perform their duty well and so this gave way to the invention of mechanical clocks.
The first mechanical clock was introduced in the 18th Century but people became aware of this device only after the 1870s. Over the years alarm clocks became a necessity device in every household.
S0 why am I talking about history and revolution of the alarm? For ages the one thing about an alarm that hasn't changed is that it hasn't given up on its job. Its time to be to be a beacon, to be the morning alarm and never ever turn your back on your job even during snoozes.
Lets be the morning alarms we are called to become.
RIYA CHAVAN
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