Seven Nights In The Dark

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It's been three days of not being able to publish nor even write an article. I am so busy with my studies, with life and responsibilities, and a problem had just came knocking on our doors and made a disaster inside the house. Hahaha! XD But, now? I am not that busy and can manage my time and battery, so I decided to make a comeback. Kidding! 🤣

On the day of August 19, 2021, Thursday, I along with my Mama and Papa woke up more earlier than we supposed to be. Why? Because we have some important errands to go with. We go to my second house when I was in secondary school to enroll my younger brother on the Balik-Aral Program.

Balik-Aral Program are meant for the students that dropped-out or stopped from studying for a year or two or more. If they already want to go back to school and study again, this is suited for them.

I woke up more earlier too and started to do household chores around 7:30 in the morning. I also remember myself as a determined-multitasker because while having a virtual orientation for our major field, I was taking a bath too. 🤣

So, minutes after and we just arrived at the school. We headed back to the Administration Building because the one that's handling Balik-Aral students are from the Guidance Office. But, their office was transferred to the Old Museum of Social Studies. So, yeah. Mama was having a tantrums about it. Well, sorry, Mama. I wasn't able to go here for two year so I doesn't know. Hahaha!

Back to the story, we wasn't able to finish the inquiries and enrolling process because staff of the Records Section will just look for bro's school card and we are just instructed to go by Monday.

I will just about to get inside to our family vehicle when I received a message from my Aunt, saying that our electricity was cut by the authorities (in short, naputulan kami).

Why? Because we hadn't pay our two months bill of electricity. So, Mama was slowly being angry. Why? Because of what had happened. Why, again? Because of her irresponsible and self-caring siblings. She was allotting money for her share for the electric bill but how about her siblings? Especially her brothers.

Maybe some of you had already know some of our family issues, as I already shared some of it in some of my articles and posts in noise.cash. And, this problem of our's about electric bill was once featured in one of my previous published articles.

Maybe you would like to read this article to have a glimpse of our situation: The Electrifying Electric Bill

And when we got home? What we saw are my siblings sweating, the appliances are turned off, and the excruciating and scorching heat from the inside of the house. It's burning hot from the outside and even inside the house.

Now, let me share some of our experiences in the days and nights of not having electricity.

Overall, we were already on our seventh day in the extreme heat and about to eighth night in the dark.

SEVEN NIGHTS IN THE DARK!

First night in the dark.

August 19, 2021.

Our day goes by so smoothly, not until a message pops up in my phone's screen. A message containing a bad news that our electricity was cut-off. On the afternoon of this day, it was so difficult. It was so hot, so so hot. My phone was running-out of battery because I used it for our virtual orientation. So when we got home, I asked Mama to bring to bring my phone to Ate Iste's house. She's a very close relative and was single for over forty six years. We don't know what to do, we don't know if the electricity will be paid off by this day. Until, the darkness was near to come. The only option that we have that time, is to bear with it. And, so we did.

Night came. By 6:00PM, Papa get my phone from Ate Iste's house. Before it gets dark, our rice was already cooked. Before, when we still have lights, I used to cook our rice in the rice cooker but not now because I need to cook it on the stove.

It was so difficult for us to eat our dinner on the dark, with just a candle giving us some amount of light. Good thing that it rained, even though it was so hot from morning to afternoon. Seems like the weather was going on the flow with us. Nakikisama ba.

Around 8:30 in the evening, we were already lying on the bed. So far from what we used to be before which was we were just eating our dinner by this time. It's so hard and seems like my heart were being crumpled as I watched my younger siblings and our parents eating in the dark.

The first night was followed by another one .... until a night became nights.

One night became seven nights.

Second night in the dark.

Third night in the dark.

Fourth night in the dark.

Fifth night in the dark.

Sixth night in the dark.

Seventh night in the dark.

Our situation now was indeed a very difficult one. Imagine, the weather during day-time was so intense as the heat and humidity was so heightened.

The truth is that it's not that difficult during night-time, because all that we need to do by that time are to cook our meals, eat, fix the plates, arrange the bed, and sleep. We are used to sleep with the lights turned off, but not with our electric fans turned off.

Our first five nights (Thursday night to Monday night) was so great and our sleep went so fine because it rain, making it more easy to have our sleeps because it's not hot. But, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday? The heat of the morning stayed until the night. No rain to poured down, but just a pure nights filled with heat.

But, during day-time? It's indeed so hard to deal with. To divert our attentions? We were just engaging in household chores and other activities such as gardening, movie watching, and more. As of me? I was just diverting my attention through doing my school works, doing random stuffs, and making some noises in noise.cash and read.cash.

Yes, it wasn't that difficult during night because we can endure it. But, I know that my parents were thinking about this matter. How would I know? I can feel their silence in the dark but their thoughts was speaking so loud.

So loud that even my own mind were hearing it.

So loud that it seems like all of my nerves and tissues were feeling their over ranging thoughts.

I can feel them being problematic because of their silence.

I can feel their worries because of their zipped mouth but opened thoughts.

I can hear the overflowing questions in their minds, loud and clear, even though they didn't utter it vocally.

How hard it is for me?

As a daughter, it was so hard for me to do household chores. Yes, I am sweating a little just by washing the dishes at the sink before. But, now? My sweats are flowing like a waterfalls.

As a student, it's more harder for me. It's so difficult that I even asked myself, "why just now? why not before?" Because I already have classes now. I need to do many school works. Before I can even take an hour or two or three or even four of afternoon naps. If I felt like my brain was being drained from working and working for my activities? I can take a nap and sleep, anytime that I want to. And, I will just continue it by night. But, now? With this kind of situation that were up to? I can't. I need to start grinding more earlier than I used to be before. I need to finish one to two activities and submit it to our respective classrooms before the darkness filled in the surroundings. I need to because I will not be able to do it when the night came, because I don't have light. What I just have is darkness.

Aside from that, I need to prevent my phone and laptop from being drained. Why? Because I was just charging it to Ate Iste's house. Yes, it's okay to her but as time passes by? I am feeling shy, little by little.

There is a time when Papa were saying that we should just wash our clothes on Ate Iste's house, seems like he was saying that we shouldn't use electricity anymore once that we got it back. I was just silent but as minutes passed by that he keeps on saying it, again and again? My ears seems to be annoyed. And, so I broke my silence and said, "how about me? how about my gadgets?" And, he said that I should just charge it to Ate Iste's house. I answered him with another question, "how about my studies? Ganito na lang ba?" I was pissed, yes. Because it sounds so selfish, for me.

I am not worried on how our current situation will affect my social life. What I am worried about is that it might affect my studies if it will take more longer, that I wished it wouldn't.

And, just like what I said on my previous post in noise.cash? "I am a goal-digger and not a stress-digger."

So for me to not be stressed with this problem? I am just diverting myself on many things. Such as this things:

I am using my free time on how to use beauty products more better. Not for me to use it in every day life, but for me on how to learn it so that I can use it when times that I need to wear make-ups and things for my face.

I along with Mama, used one of our days to enroll my younger brother as a returning Grade 9 student. After that and before heading back at home, we stopped and dropped at my younger sister's school (just in our community) to enroll her for the coming School Year 2021-2022. After filling up a form and dropping it on the drop-box, I succeed on enrolling her for her last year in primary school, Grade 6. I also get her things to her homeroom adviser, so that I can make some tipidity ways.

On the next day, Wednesday, I used near half of the day by sewing her previous notebooks so that I can spend lesser for their notebooks. I just did a tipidity way and used some hours of diversification.

Aside from this things, I am also doing some tutorials. Through this activities, my attention was being diverted away from this stressful problem. But as I said, I am not a stress-digger. It's not because of us that we are into this situation, so why should we stress ourselves, right? Let them be.

Also, I don't want this problem to stop me from being profitable. So, instead of ranting in Facebook or ranting verbally here in the house? I just used this as an opportunity to write an article, which is the Umuusad nga ba?. Seems like I hit two birds with only one stone.

"I let out all of my rants and thought and I earned, too."

Yesterday, Mama's younger sister said that her husband will pay for the shares of their two brothers when his salary was released and sent to his bank account by maybe by Friday, so that we can get the electricity back. I just hope that it will come true and was not just with words. <3

We're getting used to it but still, we need electricity.

Yes, it's kinda problematic but I am just looking on the brighter side which was it can help me, us to be more stronger in life. Remember,

"Life experiences will make us more stronger, so do the problems."

We will have it back, we just need to be more optimistic and patient.

Hold on tight, fam! We'll see the light, soonest. ❤

Thank you for reading. It's just about our experiences during the dark nights, hope you like it. :)

Thank you for the support, guys! You rock. ❤

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Published by August 26, 2021