Fast forward to today. With the advent of electricity everything has changed. No more early to bed early to rise. With just the flick of a switch night vanishes and we are free to do whatever we want without the constraint of darkness and fear.
Two hundred years years ago midnight is when people awake fully rested and ready to talk and before you know it the romance trap is sprung like a snare catching a unsuspecting prey. Not anymore, now midnight is the time people are heading off to bed begging for the alarm clock to wake than at five. You can be sure there is no association between the alarm clock and the romance snare. Both persons are too tired to even tell each other morning. What a life. Yes another of life’s pranks. Yes electricity promised us so much and yet it made us so unhappy.
Electricity is the silent killer in the of the modern age. It has single handedly created the conditions for our biggest scourge, stress. Stress is the malaise that has wreaked havoc on our physical and emotional health as well as our spiritual and psychological health.
According to some health care professionals most our our health issues are rooted in a lack of rest. And the main reason why we are not resting is because of the electrical switch on the wall. When we should be in bed sleeping we are up watching television or out working. Chores are not postponed anymore. Things get done because electricity made it possible all at the expense of our relationships.
Indeed it has been found that whenever there is nation wide blackout there is a spike in babies being born nine months later. Now you know why.
You see women hates darkness. When the place is all lighted up she see all kinds of things to do but when the place is dark she becomes afraid. In the dark there is only one place she will feel safe, in the arms of her husband. Where is he? In bed. Yes she is feeling safe but it comes with a price. A price she will carry for nine months.