This prompt just had to be when I'm currently going through the worst power outage, it's been weeks, almost a month now and the electricity distribution company has still not given us a valid reason why we have to go through this frustrating experience. It is no news now that most activities we are involved in these days require the use of electricity, home activities such as washing, keeping the children entertained, making the house feel cool and fresh, even cooking, etc all require the use of electricity, what about our businesses, most business run on loss these days and most people have been frustrated to the point of giving up due to this power outage issue.its so sad.

I remember when a close friend of mine traveled out of Nigeria for the first time to further her studies in the UK, she couldn't get used to the fact that the electricity supply could be stable without any outage, we joked about how she still couldn't stop carrying her charger everywhere and always plugging her phone to charge even when it was fully charged, this is how the power outage issue in my country has affected the mental health of its citizen, and it took time before she blended in the new country, the fear of power outage and staying out of your device due to low battery is no longer a worry to her, she can use that energy to concentrate on better things.

To make matters worst now, the price of fuel has tripled, and running a generator is even more expensive, but most of us have no choice but to run this expensive expense, since our earning is also online, as a blogger on Hive for instance, imagine not having access to your devices due to low battery and all your devices shutting down, that has been my predicament for days, to make it worst, my generator became faulty, I took it to an engineer to get it fixed, after making that annoying unexpected expenses, and waiting for the generator to be back on to good use again, the engineer makes it worst, and started demanding for more money to take it to someone else who according to him is boss and more knowledgeable than him in gen. repairs, you can imagine how frustrating it has been for me, after making a former payment, in my frustration and haste to make a withdrawal to get it fixed, I made a wrong transaction, sending HBD to binance instead of hive, to show how mentally stressing the power outage issue can be on us, the more annoying part is that the NEPA officials still bring outrageous bills at the end of the month when we can't boast of 7 days light for the whole month,

I'm yet to get my generator fixed, still waiting for the supposed boss of repairs to get it fixed, and now left to rely on a neighbor's generator, so I can be active on Hive and run my business online as well, this is not very convenient tor me at all, I like my privacy and hate disturbing people as well, now I have no choice than to stick to my neighbour's timing which is not always in tune with mine, I buy the fuel for him to help me run his gen for few hours, so I can get all my devices charged to manage till the evening when he arrives from work, I feel very uncomfortable about this, but have no other choice and when he doesn't come back from work, I'm left with no choice than to stay offline.

So annoying, I just hope someday Nigeria will become a country where stable electricity will be our daily testimony, can this era ever come? Till then, we have to choice than to survive even when it isn't convenient.

_{All images used in this post are mine}

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