A Day Without Internet

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13 February, 2020, 02:00 pm
Last modified: 13 February, 2020, 02:04 pm

Just think you are on day-off and you do not have internet. Is not it sounding like a nightmare? Whatever, nightmares become true sometimes.

Here you are going to read Kanta's a below average mundane half day-off without internet. Kanta gets only one day-off in a week, plans a lot of things and ends up by doing nothing at home.

Do not take 'doing nothing' in a light way. It includes a lot of things: watching movies, series, scrolling social media, avoiding neighbour, ordering foods, eating several times, planning with friends on group chat and cancelling them in mind instantly is considered as heavy works. 

On her day-off, she wakes up at 12:30 pm. Then, she opens her laptop to finish the last season of Peaky Blinders while having brunch. With a lot of excitement, she taps Netflix and it shows "Can't Connect to Netflix." Yes! There is no Wi-Fi connection. 

And guess what? What do you expect? It is Kanta. So, she does not get out of bed, does not call at service centre and finishes her brunch looking at ceiling. Unlike other days she keeps her door closed. 

She looks here and there to see what she can do with herself. There are no new books but a lot of unfinished book that she does not want to continue. Somehow her newly purchased books are borrowed by people and now
she is regretting. 

Within eight minutes, she becomes bored with herself. She calls at service centre and finds that they are going through some technical issues and will 'not available' for the whole day. 

Kanta is very optimistic. She decides to spend some 'me time' and do some yoga. She searches a half an hour yoga tutorial on YouTube. Can you guess what happen then? A dinosaur with one eye pops up and reminds her that there is 'No Internet.'

She shifts her mind on 'me time' and pathetically does not find any 'me.' She feels worthless and remembers all the dumb decisions that she has ever taken in her life. 

Giving up on her thoughts, she decides to visit a friend's home. She gets ready and opens Uber app. Oops! There is no internet. She looks for buying a mobile data package but she does not know how to as she has not used mobile data for ages. She googles for it. And, boom! Nothing. A dinosaur. Kanta silently abuses herself for spoiling the only day-off like this. 

In this miserable situation, we can wish her best of luck only. Deal yourself with delicacy Kanta as this is all you can do.

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