A frustrating moment

"The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life".

Roy T. Bennett

Should I even call it a frustrating moment? I would rather not call it that so I would have a positive day. A negative thought ruins the day and it will definitely affect whatever you have planned out.

I think I heard some complaining about the MTN network last night but I wasn't too paying attention to it but moved on with the tasks even though I didn't do much because of some situations that arose. I took the family morning devotion which lasted for thirty minutes and then went into my room to observe my personal quiet time. I am already used to this though but I noticed the YouVersion Bible App I was studying with went black. No network connection. I just skipped the part and prayed.

I took my phone outside to start working online while at the same time preparing breakfast for the family. That was when I remembered the complaint last night. I switched off my phone, turned it on again but there was no network. My mood changed immediately because I didn't plan my article the previous day because at the end of the task, I was so weak and had to postpone writing my article today.

The battle began and I started calculating many things in my head. That was when I know one has to prepare for plan B if A isn't working. I never knew something like this would happen, I would have brought my other sim card along but as it is, I needed to start work online especially meeting up with the posts on Hive which I have to read and comment as a moderator in the community.

I couldn't concentrate on anything else and I just Subscribed 10GB on it a few days ago. I don't know when the network issue would be resolved but I need to switch to another plan to be able to work or else, it would be piling up and moreover, I started thinking about Readcash and was like "what if the day ends without the network going through, is that how I will miss posting? It will definitely be the first time since I started writing here that I would miss posting" and it's not for any other reason but this unplanned network failure.

I wanted to beep Olasquare to make an inquiry on the Spectranet network as I heard he uses it and I think he is saved from these unreliable networks.

I asked my sister if she had any other sim cards and she said yes. Immediately I collected her Airtel sim and inserted it into my phone. I subscribed another 10GB which cost me like $6.

I was doing that while frying some bean cake with palm oil. Grandma wanted bean cake fried with palm oil, and so, we didn't have a choice than to go with what she wanted. Here is the result.

At least pending the time or days the network would be resolved, I am sticking to this Airtel sim even though it's slow in loading up but I still could perform the tasks I need to do. It's really frustrating but my mood shouldn't change because of that.

I guess the day would be okay, though I wish it would so I can have the strength to engage as much as possible. I couldn't do much here yesterday since I was preoccupied with other stuff, especially grandma who kept shouting and wouldn't allow us to rest.

The painful part right now is that we don't know when the electricity will be restored. The wind last night was scary as we thought it would collapse the roof but as it is in Nigeria, this already means the pole would be affected and they won't bring the light until they have repaired it. Well, I have two power banks which should last me 2 days or more, though we would also switch on the Generator at night.

This is just about the frustrating moment I had early this morning but I am less concerned since I have gotten an alternative. How will it feel if I do not have an alternative? Just staring at my phone without doing anything, or perhaps listening to music which will be boring later on. I don't think I will be able to bear it when it happens but until then, let me keep doing what I can today.

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