This chapter is being written after I've spent a whole day offline* and basically how i feel after doing so.

Okay so, I woke up this morning to seeing my Tablet having no charge at all. I had drained the battery the night before and plugged it in to charge overnight (I know its dangerous, but still). So, consider how surprised I was to see it had not charged at all! I checked the connection and cables and all and it was all alright. Everything was working except the Tablet! It simply refused to charge one bit. So after like half an hour of scouring the Internet on my dads phone, the best solution I had found was to just leave it charging. And so, that is exactly what I did.

Now this was in the morning. I thought I had nothing to do for the whole day then, I felt hopeless and wanted to sleep the day away. But I then thought to myself, this is an opportunity. Ive been meaning to do some stuff that I just kept putting off for later and I told myself, "It is now or never". And so, my day began with me booting up my old pc.

Just for some context, my old pc was such a potato that it had trouble running even Google Chrome. This was the pc that I had now decided to spend my day with. I spent the next few hours revisiting old flash games I used to play as a kid and it was frustratingly difficult at first. My pc lagged trying to run even the simplest of games, the games had not aged well at all, the graphics were so bad that it even made me question myself, "What did past me see in these games?". But the more I played, the more I came to see why. Sure, my pc lagged a lot but it made me remember the patience I had as a kid waiting for my pc to unfreeze. Sure, the graphics might've been bad but the music made up for it by bringing up all the memories of playing that game in my mind. I spent the rest of the afternoon reconnecting with my childhood. I suppose it was nice in a way, like a surprise reunion with an old friend whom youve spent countless hours of your life with.

Having no social media, I had 0 contact with my friends. So yes, it did feel like I was completely alone in the world. I couldnt help but WONDER (hehe) , "What are they all doing?", "Are they worried about my sudden and warningless absense?", "Do they miss me?" Etc. But then I realized just sitting there lost in my thoughts and insecurities wont do nothing for me, and so I got up and started to exercise. Man, not being a regular exerciser, I realized just how unfit I really am. But after like a solid hour of exercising i felt a lot fitter and felt like my mind was at peace. It was around evening at that time.

After that rigorous episode of exercise, I actually worked up my courage and went to check on my Tablet that I left charging accoridingly to the Internet' advice. And my oh my, it actually worked! It was now atleast, charging. The urge to turn it on and start checking my notification was very much real then. But I again told myself that I've already spent half the day without it and so I can spend the other half without it as well and so I left it charging.

It was time for studying. Ill admit, being offline didnt make me become even a bit more interested in studying. It was all boring work like it was before, nothing had changed. I finished them as I usually did. No noticeable changes in this aspect of my life whatsoever.

Finally after what seemed to be forever spent studying, I finished all my work. Hoping to spend the rest of the night again revisiting my childhood, I quicklfdy put down my books and started to power my old pc up. Then suddenly, everything went black. The power went out. I sighed to myself and started thinking about what I was supposed to do then. I got up, walked to the balcony and saw the reason for the power outage; a storm was building. I could feel it, a very wet and cold wind was blowing. I was not wrong, very soon after, it started raining heavily with very loud cracks of thunder in the background. I just sat by a window and watched the rain for the rest of the time. It was then that I had saw ice rain; gale, for what has only been the 2nd time in my life. It was just as majestic as I remember the 1st time to have been.

But after a while the rain stopped, the power came back and I once again was left with the dilemma of having nothing to do. It was too late then to turn on the pc yet too early to go to bed. And so, thats when I gave in, I picked up my now completely okay tablet and started writing this story. Ill admit, I did check my notifications before though, it was practically impossible not to.

What I found was that everything and everyone completely normal. Nobody was worried about me, nobody was asking themselves where I had disappeared off to, nobody cared. Everyone went on about their usual lives. And its so easy to take this in a negative light and think that they are bad friends, they dont care about me blah blah blah but thats no use. Instead to me, it was sort of like a wake up call, a pull to bring me back down to earth by telling me that the world doesnt revolve around me, I am not special. It is liberating, in a way. I now know I can now do whatever I want for a day and not have me worry about my friends worrying about it. In the same way, I know that I can be myself without having to worry about my friends not liking me, just cause I am not that important, nobody is. I feel like I have more freedom now than I thought I ever did before.

And this is where the story ends I suppose. Oh boy, a thousand words! This is pretty much the largest thing I have written till now. My final thoughts? Good or bad, all of it was worth it for these thousand words. Hope you enjoyed!

*My definition of offline may vary from the dictionary's.