So I’m making dinner on Friday night. It was cooking and I
went to the patio door. My wife was on
the other side of it and we were engaged in small talk. Have you ever heard lightning as it
hits. It’s a sound I’ll never
forget. We both jumped. I distinctly remember going about four inches
off the ground. Scared? Maybe a little but of course being a guy you never let
on to that sort of thing.
After dinner I sat down in the living room and went to turn
on the television connected to the satellite box. There was no response. The same thing happened to the TV in the
basement and in the upstairs bedroom.
Turns out it was the next door neighbor’s house that got hit and our
proximity to the strike effectively “fried” the satellite receivers and
apparently the upstairs television.
Internet service was knocked out as well. We found it would take three days before the
service could be repaired and later learned it would be a week
This became a lesson in creativity and of remembering the
past. The lack of service allowed time
for some long neglected work around the house.
It provided time to write this blog. (Made it to a coffee shop in order
to post it) It also provided an
opportunity to step back and undertake what used to be a favorite past time of
mine and that was listening to music with the headphones. I pulled out some
albums from those days and no sooner had the music been in my ears than I was
transported back to the late 70’s and early 80’s. This in turn allowed for a lot of pleasant
memories to come flooding back. It was a
good couple of days.
Maybe the real lesson here is to not have to wait for
lightning to strike. Maybe there a need
for all of us to turn it off from time to time…the box, the computer, whatever
else it might be from distracting us from accomplishing so much more in life.
Life just might be a little more fulfilling.
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