Greetings hope you had a great start if the week!
This time I want to talk about how you react to things outside of your control.
As some of you may know from my previous post, Curacao has been dealing with complete power outages in the past week. It happened on Monday (8 hours) on Thursday (5 hours) and on Saturday/Sunday (17 hours).
And this is not the first time, we had a series in March and a series in Nov 2019.
Not to mention random outages but this are spread far apart (for me).
And with anything big that happens here there are basically 2 groups.
Some are mad, they want people to get fired, want to be reimbursed, want more than a mere apology. "This is unacceptable! Curacao can't go on like this... Everything is bad, the island struggles... " Let's call them the angry crowd.
Then you have another side, that kind of romanticises a 'blackout' like a lot of us do with covid. Sort of like: "this blackout has given us the opportunity to stop looking at our phone and actually have a conversation with someone. Or read a book. Or finally play with your dog or whatever." You get the point 😃.
Let's call them the Zen crowd.
And these two sides go back and forth...
And I think it has to a lot to do with how you look at life but both of these groups have a point!
Cause it's true, you can't have the only utility company on the island be this....incompetent.
It's a bad look for the island, it's bad for business, it's more than an inconvenience.
In that same thought they're wrong, cause getting angry doesn't solve the problem. First of all you can get angry all you want, you're not going to get electricity back right away...
Also, having that technician fired while it's the fault of the machine that the company bought doesn't solve the problem.
Yelling out that this is unacceptable with looking into who else can do a better job doesn't help anyone.
On the other hand, the zen group is right. For your own sake it's better to have a plan of find something to do in that time cause it's still your time .
(If you happen to get some insights into your internet addiction, and now you want to change for the better, that's an added bonus 😂.)
But the first thing is just pragmatism, do what you can to make the best out of the situation.
And in that same thought, the Zen group is wrong because you can't keep hiding from the problem. You can accept this lack of management as the norm and you can keep ignoring the consequences.
So where would you stand???
Let's discuss it below!
Cheers,
Gyanno