The Insomniac

And The Somnambulist.

I had a friend. His father was a simple clerk in some government department.

He had a sister and this family of  four was living happily in a quarter alloted to them by the government.

I had one another friend. He lived in the same campus where the family of four was living. His father and mother both were serving in the same government department. That is how the two families got accomodation in the same campus. 

The daughter in the family of four was kind of somnambulist. This was known to them since when she was just a 3 or 4 year old kid. But when I knew the family, she was about the age of 18 or 19. She had joined a college and was studying in the second year of the bachelor's degree.

She would often asked me for help when she had any difficulties in her study, and I would happily try solving her problems and the difficulties.

Once her mother told me, every night  they tie her leg or hand with some immovable object such as to a chair or to the door-knob or a window. I was just  amazed.

"Why?" -  I asked.

She told their daughter would often walk in sleep and though has no problem any what-so-ever, wouldn't dash into walls or other things, yet could walk up-to 1 or 2 miles sometimes.

"Oh".

The father of another friend was kind of an insomniac. He was old and was about to retire soon, maybe in an year or two. He couldn't pass time at home turning sides in the bed. So he would walk up in the sprawling campus area. For an hour or more he would keep walking and then return to bed. 

One night when he was on his routine walk and had walked for about one and a half mile, he was surprised to see the somnambulist girl on his way. He could not understand what was wrong with her in the midnight at about 01:00 A.M.

Then he followed her from behind and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw her entering in her house.

Next day all in the campus knew this.

But since that day someone would take care and make sure that she is tied with a post while going to bed.

She was married off with the same friend who knew all this and was already well aware of this problem. But they were in love and too intimate with one another.

After some 25 year, they celebrated their marriage anniversary, all invited in the party shared this interesting story and all enjoyed too.

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