For the fifth day in a row, the power goes out for a long time.
Prior to this, outages were not so long and irregular.
Today, on the fifth day, I roughly understood the blackout pattern in my region and can even make a certain schedule. This makes the situation much better, because now I understand when there will be no light in order to successfully plan my day or night.
The light is stable only at night.
It turns on at exactly midnight or 3:00 a.m., and lasts until the very morning and even until noon. There is also a daytime shutdown in the period from 14-15 to 19-21 hours.
So it happened today. At exactly 9 p.m., I was left alone with my cats, keyboard, and phone, which absorbs my thoughts, born of a fingers dance and the thoughts rustle.
The day was busy and a bit stressful.
My head was spinning, it was getting cold, I saw the first ice on the puddles, there was no snow. Sunny.
Turning off the lights became a kind of salvation, an island of peace, a release of tension, a place to stop with thinking, planning.
Each subsequent part of this dark pastime is filled with an even greater understanding and awareness of what exactly I must do when the electricity appears.
Planning reaches a new level.
Junk, excess, garbage disappear automatically, by default they step into this darkness and hide from my desire to savor every minute with light and working electrical appliances.
I already know exactly what I will do, I have a clear algorithm of actions and I implement it the very second when the light appears.
Electricity has come out of everyday life and has become a real treasure that you find every day.
Along with it, not only the actions are adapted, but the movement itself becomes more conscious, clear, confident. In this movement, the desire is imprinted not to become a victim of these inconveniences, but on the contrary to develop one’s strengths, to adapt, to move towards victory.
Every time the light goes out, I am happy for people who have it, for the neighboring houses, districts and cities, because I believe they are, like me, who use this resource more wisely than before, like me, who plan his life in the dark and with a burning lamp. I am glad that we are spending another day that brings our victory over the enemy closer.
These shutdowns as signals not so much about help, but as a unit of measurement of our peaceful life in the future. The more such blackouts we experience, the sooner Ukraine will celebrate Victory Day in this war.
I have the opportunity once again in real life to let the words “the darker night, the brighter stars” pass through me. Both literally and figuratively.
It’s one o’clock in the morning, the light has just turned on and it’s time to do business.
For example, publish this post and then…
