Yesteray, May 21, 2012, Monday, early in the morning, I was forced to wake up from a sweet dream which I can not recall in detail now. “Gosh, can’t you let me enjoy a little bit more in my fancy dream”, I whispered after answering my customer. I knew from that very moment that this Monday, as usual, was gonna be an eventful day. Good things always come alone, bad things with a company. The work occupied me from 7:30a.m. through 18:30p.m. What’s worse is the generator refused to start. Since it was already late in the evening, to call a mechanic to look into the proplem is impossible. I have to kill another night without light, unblievable for people from countries with power and water 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. However, here in Nigeria, the daily necessities, like power and water, sometimes, seems so aloof and inaccessible. Things bad yet sometimes are useful as well.

Stay isolated; stay focused. One beautiful poetic sentence says “Night gives me eyes of darkness, while I use them to find light.” One thing good for being in dark is there is no lure around me. Nowadays, we people have so many things around us that could totally occupy us, the almighty one being the cyerworld and the softwares and hardwares connecting us to it. The cyberworld and these softwares and hardwares take so much time and energy from us, especially young people whose youth to some extent has been ruined, just due to the cyberworld and connecting means. I am the kind of person who seldomly installs QQ, Facebook, Twitter, and the like onto my handsets. Now my laptop is down, the handsets are not fully functional, and the accesses to cyberworld are totally barricaded due to the lack of power. As a saying goes “when God close one door, he will open a widow.” Luckily one last access to entertainment is still there for me—a candle and a lighter. I took out the lighter, lit the candle, and accessed the book I have in hand. Surprisingly, never have I in the past few months been so indulged in my book, reading quick and reading between the lines. Time and time again, my thoughts allied with the author’s, just like dancing to harmonious music, without knowing that time is always on the go till the moment the candle went out. Then I came to realize that staying isolated would just mean stay focused.