Dear Alarm!

So a friend of mine walked into the office one morning, still looking very sleepy and like he'll rather be anywhere else than the office...but to be fair to him, almost everyone in the office looked miserable...sorry...always looks miserable every Monday morning, but this post isn’t about my usual Monday Morning Madness, so we will move on. So he walks up to me and says, we don’t give the alarm clock enough credit, and I go huh? Say what? And I’m there thinking in my mind, isn’t it too early in the morning and week to be drunk biko nu? He then asks me, what wakes you up every morning? Me I already went spiritual sharp sharp, God is the one that wakes me up every morning. Without God, my alarm clock will have no work to do. The guy just rolled his eyes and said, think about it for a minute, what would we do without our alarm clocks? So many people will miss very important meetings, will always get queried for coming late to work and so many important events. I then calmed down and thought about it....that’s actually very true.

Imagine for a moment that you resume at work on your first day and they assign your duties to you and it reads, wake Mr so so so every morning by 5am. I’m definitely sure you would think, what a stupid job, plus it’s too damn easy! But judging by the Naija spirit in us, you'll probably say "what’s my own, shebi na to wake person, make them just ready my money by month end...I go wake dead body sef, but if story enter my money kpere, na there yawa go gas".

You resume the first day at work, you wake your client at 5am and he lands you one very hot slap on the head, and of course that’s after throwing so many swear words at you. How would you feel? You were doing this entity a favour and making sure he doesn’t get late to work.

Brethren and sistren, this is exactly how the alarm clocks are treated. If they are not slammed on the head, they are thrown on the floor while looking for the snooze button, or just completely ignored by our brothers that can sleep untop of water. Those ones that will set alarm for themselves and the alarm will wake the whole community up except them. It’s even more annoying when others don’t need to wake up so early. They will never wake up, till someone annoyingly puts it off. They will now wake up and be asking everybody why the alarm didn’t ring.

But all in all, our alarm clocks do a lot for us. I personally think their anguish has reduced with the advent of mobile phones. If you like throw your phone on the floor when the alarm rings, na you go suffer am. There’s no how you won’t wake up first and tenderly look for the snooze button.

Though we are yet to find a solution for a brothers that can sleep on water, they still seem to think their mobile phone is playing a lullaby to them, no matter how loud the alarm is. But the technology that did it for us will also find a solution for them.

So this post is a voice to the voiceless...lol! Let’s take a moment to be appreciative of that device called the alarm clock and for technology at large for helping us meet deadlines and appointments because I really can’t remember when last I heard the cock crow...