Sudden Power Outage, Candlelight, and a Special Evening
After work, I got home and was preparing dinner. I took out some food
from the refrigerator and was just about to start, when the power went
out. It was dark inside, and I was in a difficult situation. When I went
outside, the power went out only on the line where I was, not the entire
apartment.
When I renewed my monthly magazine subscription last month, the publisher
sent me a candle as a gift. I lit it and waited for the electricity to
come back on. Unlike usual, there was only silence. I was wondering if I
should stay like this until tomorrow morning, and if the boiler wouldn’t
work, when the electricity came back on. Light. It was only for an hour,
but the night without electricity was special. Silence. Silence.
Silence.
They say people used to live well without electricity. That must not have
been living well. They lived without knowing that the inconveniences were
inconvenient. Gas, the phone, the things we use conveniently now were
things that didn’t exist in the past. When I think about the times when we
lived without them, the world is really convenient now.
- 2020. 12. 3.
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