Today around 12 PM, I realized, I can’t check my office email. Then thought may be our mail server is down; then I checked other web sites, and all seem to be offline. Then realized internet is down. Then I was wondering why internet is off, let me try and trouble shoot. Went near the server and saw power is off, so the cause is a power outage. Hmm… I am thinking hard on how to spend time fun way when power is down. May be call one of my friends, but how? there is no internet and I need VOIP for a phone call. Obviously I can’t work, so suddenly some long pending work came to mind i.e; going to the bank. Then happily I got ready thought I will run some errands also that was long pending. Then tried to open the garage door, it wouldn’t open… cause it is electricity operated. Now, going out is out of question, so what else can I do? I checked there is food in the fridge, but I can’t eat it because I can’t heat the food. Oh, well I thought to myself, let me do a facial that is pending for a long time. I opened the kit and realized I need hot water and I can’t heat water without electricity. Still thinking what can be done when there is a power outage. Can I go out to walk? No, it is too hot. Middle of the day I can’t do yoga or meditation also, so kind of running out of ideas how to utilize my time. May be play chess with my laptop, but hey laptop needs to be charged in half an hour. So, what else? It is summer, we don’t need AC but lot of people do, I am just wondering how miserable they must be. Will they sustain Texas heat without AC? It makes me introspect how dependent we are on electricity. How people used to survive when there was no electricity? Hard to imagine. In our village in Orissa, there was no power for one month and people were operating as usual. Now hats offto them those who are not slaves of this inanimate object!!
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