It’s eight in the evening, and you’re done with dinner. You plonk yourself in the sofa and switch on the television automatically…only to find that there’s no cricket! The IPL has been so much a part of our everyday life in the past six weeks that it’s hard to think about anything else post dinner-time. If you’re showing post IPL-withdrawal symptoms, here are five things you could do to get over it…
Hasn’t it been a while since you went out with friends/family and spent quality time chatting with them? Do that now. Visit friends who you’ve lost in touch with (not the ones you just bond over during the matches) and check on relatives who called you during a crucial over of a match. Late evenings are the best time to socialise this time of the year, as the sun is beating down hard the rest of the day
For a change, hand over the TV remote to the ladies, if they weren’t as big on cricket as you were. Chances are they’ve missed watching their favourite TV soap or caught any movies they played in the last month. Give them their time with the telly.
Get back to reading. There’s no greater pleasure that turning the pages of a book and catching up on what you’ve left half-way. For some, it provides even greater joy than a Dhoni helicopter shot or a quickfire innings by AB de Villiers.
- How about indulging in a hobby that you’ve long forgotten? Perhaps you play a musical instrument and haven’t had the time to take it out in the last few weeks. Or, perhaps you’ve missed your early morning running or cycling schedules thanks to a late-night IPL humdinger. Now is the chance to get back to that.
- Last, but surely not the least, try getting a good night’s sleep. An 8 pm start for a cricket match ensures that you sleep past midnight, and that might not entail you to the mandatory seven hours of sleep. Now is the best time to follow the traditional method of hitting the sack early and rising up fresh the next morning.
