The benefits of electricity are just positivity endless, but I would dare to say the benefits of not having power are even more endless.
Without fail as soon as the lights go off you will suddenly be over come with a motivation to deep clean the house. Of course you will only want to clean things that involve using electricity. Even though the windows are well bathed in sunlight and you can actually see to clean them you will not want to clean the windows.
Instead you can comfortably lounge on the couch all day long reading your most favorite book. The to do list for the day was baking and cooking. While the sidewalk maybe hot enough to fry an egg baking a cake would be stupid, so why not take the day off.
Of course without lights putting on make up is an impossibility, so why not got out with streaks of black mascara all around your eyes?
The haggard look has never been more vogue. You just may possibly though run into a friend whom you haven't seen since your teenage years.
Unfortunately erasing the image of the teenage girl with bad make up and notoriously frizzy hair will not be a option, because that is exactly how you look.
Not having power is really the greatest diet plan because opening the fridge door would make all your food spoil, so you sit and look longingly at the door to the golden world of food and let the calories burn off of you.
Your not the person that lives off of caffeine, but suddenly you will be seized with the desire to drink a strong black cup of coffee. Sucking on coffee grounds never sounded so good.
You will drive by the nice hotel town in town and note all the power trucks in the parking lot. Resentment and bitterness will creep into your mind as you think how dare those power men get a lovely night's sleep in a air conditioned room.
And how dare they be able to look at their teeth after brushing them. And how dare they be able to wear clean clothing because they could actually see what they were putting on. Do they even know how humiliating it is to show up to a social gathering in a t-shirt that is decorated with last week's supper?
All this will wash away when you arrive home after midnight to find your driveway blocked with 3 power trucks giving personal attention to your house.
Most people would find it creepy to have strange men walking around on their back porch at 12:15 am. No those are not serial killers from America's Most Wanted those are superheros.
"Umm hey y'all superman was in our yard last night that's all." Avoid eye contact with people after this statement.
When the lights do come back on at 5:30 in the morning you will probably wish they were still off, because the light woke you up on a blissful Saturday morning.
Written by someone who may have personally experienced all these things and may have had to much time to think about a blog post. Sitting in the dark may just well be the best thing that has ever happened to writing since carbon copy paper
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