At first, I didn’t really know what was happening. At first I thought I just hadn’t payed electricity or something. Then I went and checked if the rest of the building had electricty. Clicked the elevator calling button - nothing. The movement-triggered lights didn’t turn on. So I thought that the elevators or the building were under some kind of maintenance. Or that there was just a problem building-wide or local to this neighbourhood.

But, it felt nice. I felt, calmer than I have ever felt before. I felt like time stopped. It made me think of how much information, without me even wanting it, that gets inside my head. This day, I was at peace, I felt centered. Yeah, no electricity, it sucked for me a bit, I had running water and had a hot water cilinder of 50L which I had closed its intake valve to make sure the water wouldn’t go “down the drain” if the municipality water supply pipes would go dry. It was… and experience… Scary in some ways, mostly because of media and hearing some people in groups creating chaos and freaking out when there was literally little factual, grounded reasoning for the source of the issue. Again, the brain information pollution - I feel I suffer from this a lot. I love the country-side. This was a close experience to that, in a very indirect way.