A few days ago our Country Oman experiences something very unusual, an unexpected incident of power failure in major parts of the Country. Within 5 minutes of power failure there was panic in people and people started getting restless. They started calling up the Electricity Company wanting to know the status of by when it will be restored. In just 15 to 20 minutes all the social media were covering up the news. It was like something very major happened. And in half an hour it was announced that the power failure would be for some few hours 4 to 6.
Most of the employees left offices for home, schools shut down, restaurants and coffee shops which did not have power backups had their shutters down. People started getting so restless just in a couple of hours that everyone was discussing what to do and how to be comfortable till the time power was restored back again. Some thought of going to Malls, some just wanted to keep driving in the A/C cars, some even thought of checkin into hotel rooms.
It was like majority of people were in anxiety and were not able to manage the little discomfort. People were restless without their mobile phones not getting charged. Finally in some areas power got restored within 6 hours and some took longer as 12 hours. But towards midnight the power was back. People who did not get electricity towards 9 p.m. quite a few of them went to their friends place for sleep over and some went to hotels.
This also made us realized that while just in few hours we were so much in discomfort then imagine there are so many parts in this world where this is a regular phenomena. Millions of people do not have car, air conditions in their home or even the facility of cool water to beat the heat and they never complain. With all the luxuries we have in life, a little discomfort was so intolerant. I remember as a child I would visit my aunt's place in a small town, where there was power shortage almost on daily basis for hours, and we had not even heard of Air conditioners then and we were still ok. We enjoyed our times no matter if the power was there or not there. But now it takes away all our attention and we become restless.
This also makes me think that we take life so much for granted. So many millions of us are so abundantly blessed with all these little luxuries which we do not even pay attention to in our day to day life. The comfort, the safety, the good environment, healthy food at our disposal, clean water are all a dream for so many while so easily available to a section of people, who do not even value it unless there is a shortage of it.
People who have it should use it wisely and always feel Grateful for these blessing that they have in life.
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