"What is darkness? Darkness does not exist but is really the absence of light…"
A powerful thought, I was reminded of during this week's power grid failures. That too not just once, but twice.
However, the first time it happened on a Monday morning before most of us were awake and the second time in the afternoon when the sun was still few hours before setting out the nadir. So actually we were not reeling quite so literally in the darkness. The very thought of it happening in the evening gives me shivers.
For a moment everyone felt so hapless for this impacted not just a part of the city but more than 50% population of the country. I read that this was probably the worst outage in the world impacting almost 10% of the world population. Everything is so dependent on electricity. This fact was evident when railways, Metro, traffic lights, offices went off. Airports were least affected as they were managed by their back-up.
When asked about this situation, our minister said that we need to appreciate that this was restored in the shortest possible time. He quoted that when a similar thing happened in the U.S they took just about 4 DAYS to restore the situation.
Can you imagine how life would be without electricity? Well to sum it up in one word, it would be DIFFICULT…not that we would not be able to survive it.
Well, to set the right perspective of this blog, this is not about the Power Grid Collapse. This is more to do with the lessons it reminded me during that period.
Lessons learnt
1) Don’t take anything for granted.
2) Respect it and use it judiciously.
2) Respect it and use it judiciously.
3) Don’t depend on one thing only and ensure that you have all possible back-up plans.
4) Remember that things could and would go wrong when you least expect them too.
I would like to share one of the many jokes that did rounds while we were enduring the outage.
Power Grid Failure: India is the first country to invent a time-machine. It was tested successfully for 2 days. The North Indians were the privileged ones to travel twice to "Dark Ages" and back.
I leave you all with the second part of the opening quote….Problem is nothing but just the absence of a Solution.
Do remember to leave your thoughts / comments on this one on my blog.
Wow great wat a thought...one More thing We Human Beings...We Don't Realise Worth Of Something Unit We Tend To Lose It...Its No Longer There In Our Life...So While Njoyin The Moment...Dont Forget To Preserve It Too Cheers
ReplyDeleteAs stated in in your old blog , I guess we need plan B in every aspect. I suggest you install a solar or wind energy backup. Not only will we have continuous supply but also some carbon credits :)
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We don't know what we've got until we lose it...?
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How often do we take stock of what we have got in life, rather than moaning about what we have not got?
We learn to appreciate the value of something after we lose it, because we do not know what it would be if we didn’t have this thing at the first place, we don’t know what it would be if we had to work for it or to fight for it.
This also reminds me of your earlier blog "Plan B".
Very True.
Cheers..
Nice writeup Bhupesh - on a side but related note - how you wish people would not take you for granted and hope that one day they will realize your worth when you are gone!
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