Who turned the lights off?

 

Past month we had several hours without electricity. Imagine yourself from morning to afternoon without lights, without a cold water to drink, or even without water because no electricity for a long time means any water.

It’s not easy to get used to this situation, the beginning it’s so hard, I remember my first experience two years ago, I was reading and then everything was turned off! I froze and I thought to myself: “wow, its happening”!

Since that day until now I learned to spend my “ecofriendly” hours with a good sense of humor. I listen to the silence, I disconnected from the high tech world, I read more, and the amazing thing happens – I have time to do nothing, or almost nothing! It’s a break from the rush hours! Of course sometimes I don’t like it, when I am too busy to wait, or to do nothing, sometimes I can’t afford the ecofriendly hours but still is not that horrible. We always get used to everything!

Many houses have their own generator, we have 2! One provides energy for our entire street which is 6 houses and our own generator is a backup when the big one breaks.  We have a small one which is useful as a backup plan, but still both don’t work for the air conditioner.

In my experience in the planet Venezuela having no electricity is not the worst thing that can happens. Being without lights for hours is not pleasant, but a Country which has no great ideas, a Country without brilliant minds to governing, which can’t bright our world, it is a dark and deep well.  This is a kind of darkness much more cruel than a dark room.

So, who is turning the lights off in the planet Venezuela?  You guess.

Let the darkness of selfish actions doesn’t turn off our lights! Let’s shine all the good stuff, let’s shine our love, and let’s shine all the worthy things in life!

With much love,

G, V, V & O.