I sat there in complete darkness. We all sat there in complete utter darkness. All wondering how this happened. Why this happened? What was even going on? We all sat there trying to make sense of what was happening.
This thing, I didn’t know what it was. No one did really. Everyone was just calling it the “Darkness” That’s all we could call it. There was nothing else to name it darkness that’s all it was. We didn’t even have way of finding out what it was.
All we could do is sit there in that cold dark room and wait. Wait for the first flicker of a light, the ring of a cell phone, a glimpse of a T.V flashing on, wait for anything to show us that electricity still exist, that there is hope it will come back on.
So that’s what I did. I sat there having no idea how much longer this “Darkness” would last. I sat there and thinking about what was even going on, about, but most of all I was thinking about how I would give anything for this “Darkness” to be over.
I knew in my mind that if the darkness didn’t end soon, I would snap. I’m not good in darkness. It drives me crazy. It’s all of daily life’s technology that keeps me sane. My technology is basically my life. My entire life depends on my cell phone, my I-pad, lap top, my T.V. Anything electronic, my life depends on it. I can’t even do something as simple as my work out routine because of this darkness.
Until the Darkness ends I’ll have to learn how to do so many things different. It will be like living without my sight except for the three hours of sun that comes a day. But who says the sun will keep coming? The darkness just started yesterday, and that was only half the day. With the rate the sun went down who can be sure it will come back up. Most would say today is the first official day of darkness since the sun hasn’t came back up and just like everyone else I doubt that it will. But then again who says the darkness will last? It could be over any second, or it could never end. I’ll just have to adapt until it’s over, if that’s even possible.
This whole thing, the “Darkness” started yesterday. I was at work when the first signs appeared. I work very high up in the restraunt business. I’m the vice president of the Lucky Burger fast food business.
The first thing really affected was the lights. They had been flickering on and off all day. At first everyone thought it was no big deal just a wiring problem. The next thing to cut in and out was the internet connection. Just like the lights, one minute there the next gone. The internet was on and off for hours. My job got a hundred times harder when the internet cuts in and out. That day I was using the internet to look up and take last month’s stocks and sales. The third thing to go was the cell towers. The towers were different than the rest though. Instead of cutting in and out all day, the towers just dropped all at once. My phone was working one second, Then BOOM! It was gone I was actually on the phone with maintance when it happened. After the towers were down it didn’t take much longer than ten minutes for internet and electricity to go completely too.
When everything started to go no one thought much of it. All of us were thinking it was just a small blackout. So we all just sat around the office waiting for the power to return. We waited about an hour in the darkness before the company sent us all home.
Everyone was happy about going home. It had been a long hot day for all of us, me most of all. I didn’t know about everyone else, but even though I was happy, there was a small question in the back of my mind about this black out. It seemed different then every other black out I’ve experienced. I don’t know this just seemed kind of spooky, you could say scary even. I don’t know. Maybe it was how the sun was going down at a very alarming rate. Or it could have been something as simple of the fact I don’t know how to function without my cell phone.
