Right Action at the Right Time

Today I had a really hectic day. One reason is that, being someone who’s mostly glued to his device, I wasn’t glued to it for almost the whole day. And not until this evening that I was able to come online or do anything with my phone.

Yes, power outages is a common issue for not being able to use your device like you intent to. But then sometimes this isn’t the only reason, at least in my case this wasn’t the only issue because I kind of had a choice.

And for the simple fact that I didn’t make the right choice at the right time, I had to spend the entire day with no way to charge my device. I have a Powerbank and that was the other choice I was presented with, just like every other person living in Third World countries with almost zero chance of having a 6-hour plus power supply.

So that leaves you with having to charge your Powerbank whenever you have the chance. However, yesterday evening I had a chance to charge my device. Actually, not I’m in my own home but in my neighbor's home.

You must be wondering how my neighbor is with electricity while I don’t. The thing is that the house backing ours is in another street where their power supply is a bit stable unlike ours. And while there was electricity there until evening, what I should’ve done to avert the unforeseen 12+ hours of power outage was to just go there and charge my power bank overnight.

But no, I had a movie I was planning to watch. And even with the knowledge that my Powerbank is already on red bar, I was betting on it to get me through the 3 hours of Netflix and chill. Then, maybe the next morning, which is today, I would then charge my power bank and device too without having to postpone the Netflix and chill I had planned for the night.

My Netflix and chill went well, leaving my phone with red bar and my power bank with zero bar. To me, I had a nice Netflix and chill but then, the sun came up and reality set in.

Immediately I was up to hit the road and head to my neighbor's house to charge my devices, the power went out. At that moment, I knew the universe kind of wants to disappoint me for not doing the right thing at the right time. When I should’ve been sleeping and charging my Powerbank, I was chilling without charging, so now that it’s time to charge there was no power available to charge.

And the story didn’t end there because I was still having hope that well - in the next two to three house, or at most 5 hours, the power would be back. However, five hours were gone with no sign of a single spark of electricity anywhere.

My hope was crushed when I slept for about 6 hours (karma of not sleeping through the night) and woke up to the same scenario of zero power to charge.

I gave up at that time, and it was at that moment I knew that if I had done the right thing at the right time I wouldn’t have been in that situation where I would spend the whole day without a way to charge, come online and write something on Hive.

It’s almost 11’o clock now and the power is presently back. This post should’ve been done during the day but hell no, I had my chance and missed it so now writing at almost midnight at this moment kind of feels like I’m forcing myself and under the pressure to post an article wrote going to bed.

In short, I can relate this to numerous aspects of daily living where many of us try to do the right thing at the wrong time only to reap the fruit of it later.

And the fruit is usually not a sweet one, but I guess that life and there’s not much that can be done to charge the past, but we can always make the right choice in the present so we won’t regret it later on.

The same scenario is presently playing out while writing, but I made the proper call because my power bank is already at my neighbors place charging peacefully while my phone with little power is being used to write this post before I go to bed and sleep peacefully.

Have you been in this type of situation too where you know you had the chance to make the appropriate call, but you didn’t, and it later cost you later on? If you’re willing, to, you can share your experience below. This is mine, what’s yours?

Thanks for reading

Until next time

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