Recently one evening there was a big thunderstorm in my area. I was working on my laptop. I was trying to finish some tasks for work. The problem was, my battery was already halfway down, but I didn’t really pay attention. I thought I’d plug it in soon.

And then suddenly… boom… the power went out. At first I thought it was just a short blackout, but then I realized it was serious. Later we found out that a tree had fallen and taken down some power lines. That explained everything.

So I was sitting in the dark, with a dead laptop and no internet. I couldn’t do much, so I just lit some candles, scrolled a bit on my phone until the battery got low, and basically tried to relax. The storm stopped after a while, and luckily the emergency services fixed the issue quite fast. But the electricity was gone for about four hours.

By the time the power came back, I was too tired to continue working. So the next morning I had to wake up really early to finish everything. Honestly, it was a bit stressful in the moment, but looking back, it was also kind of a forced break, which was good for me.