Candle Light Dinner

Candle light dinner and it sounds romantic, doesn’t it? Did you just imagine your better half sitting face to face with you? Few candles lit in between two of you while you stare at one another with burning love and passion. Waiting for the dinner you ordered to reach to the table. Or do you have wine of your taste and flavor you are enjoying at the moment? Did you just create this romantic scene with my lines? Ah…ha… I have to drag you back to reality. This wasn’t the candle light dinner I am talking about.
The power went off since 9: AM today. I don’t know where did the power went off too though (smiles). My mobile battery has started giving me red signal and only 24% of battery is left in my laptop. It was already 7:30 PM and the dawn started getting darker. I started with my dinner preparation and then in a while I was done cooking my dinner feast. I live with a neighbor who is a door step away from my home. I and his family decided to eat together. By the time we got together to eat together it was already dusk. Time to light the candle!
In that candle dim lightened room I noticed that today there were pressure cookers instead of electric rice cookers and hot water in a pot than in a boiler. Today I noticed the dark! Tonight’s dark is taking me back to my childhood memories. I have wake memories of growing in home lit with candles and kerosene lamps and my parents waking at the first call of roosters. The memories have become more unclear with almost decades of rural electrification. I have almost forgotten the dark. In that instance I start worrying about my mobile and laptop battery percentage. Then this idea of writing popped into my head. Ohh… I am already done with dinner and back to room.
I started scribbling in my book with three candles lit. Wheew…. The power is back. Now I understand what it meant when my mom told me “In a click of mouse you see the world, in a flip of button you hear voices and on a single snap of switch the night turns to day” The day of the night is back!
Candle light dinners are only romantic if the person you are having dinner is your other half and IF YOUR MOBILE BATTERY does not show red signal!
The electricity generated though our fast flowing rivers has brightened our lives, extended our working time, and brought day into night. The responsibility of taking care of this source falls upon us. Environmentalism and Responsibility. A day without power is a day more in darkness.