Electricity

So for a while I haven't had stable electricity supply where I am staying. It was only recently that they fixed it after so many days of having little to no power supply. Those days without electricity were terrible and I wonder how I was able to survive. The heat especially. It was so unbearable. There were also we need electricity for like pumping water, for the refrigerator and also to charge. We had to resort to using the generator thus contributing to climate change for us to do any of this.

Using a generator was also not convenient for us. The price of fuel is on the high and there was a national fuel scarcity recently thus increasing the price of petrol. It hasn't been easy honestly. It is not cheap for one to provide his own source of energy. The best one is the one from the government. It is the cheapest.

The recent events just made me realize just how important electricity is to our society. A society cannot reach its full potential with a constant stable power supply. Power is a necessity not a luxury because we literally do almost everything using power.

Let's take a look at a local business for example. It doesn't matter what the business is into as they still need power to offer services or goods to their customers. There needs to be power so as to provide a comfortable environment for their customers. Nobody wants to be sitting or standing under the heat waiting to be attended to. Imagine going to a supermarket with long queues and there is no electricity meaning that the air conditioner is not working. The place will get hot very quickly and a lot of people will feel very uncomfortable and leave.

Or let's look at a bank. We all hate those long queues but imagine if you were not waiting under the cooling effect of an A.C. You would probably not want to spend a minute waiting in that kind of bank. Like, most of us are already irritated having to wait for long to be attended to, if this should then happen I don't think people will want to be going to the bank again. You will just be sweating like a Christmas goat about to be killed.

Electricity is also really important in the food industry. Most of the food especially fruits and vegetables that we consume are perishable and do not have a long shelf life. That's why they are kept in the refrigerator so that they can last longer and be well preserved. Nobody wants to be eating spoilt food.

Businesses that also sell meat need a lot of power supply. This is because meat especially beef gets spoilt easily and has a very pungent smell if not properly preserved. That's why anytime you go to the market they are kept in very powerful freezers with temperatures well below zero. This can only be possible with a constant electricity supply.

Although most of this businesses supply their own power it just goes to show how important energy is in our modern society and how we can do nothing without it.

To this end I hope that our power supply becomes stable even though that is starting to look like a far fetched dream.