The morning was slow, the time was 8:30am and my eyes were still very tired. I had worked all night, drafting a Whitepaper and curating a proper Roadmap for my personal project. My laptop had four hours of power on it and it finally ran out around 6am.

”Why didn’t I just plug it in to recharge?” you may wonder.

Well, the electricity situation over here is pretty epileptic, we get like 16 hours of power and then for the next 24 hours [sometimes 48], there won’t be power at all and then there will be power for another 6 hours [sometimes there won’t] and the cycle goes on and on like that. The power situation had messed up my circadian rhythm as I now sleep at odd hours just trying to be productive. Some days, I sleep by 7pm and wake by 1am to work because there’s power and other times, I sleep by 3am and wake up by 8am. I guess the human body really CAN adapt to anything.

My eyes were shut tight when the buzz of the standing fan powering up woke me. “Can’t I sleep for just a few more minutes?” I grunted to myself but the piles of work I have to do disagreed with me. Sitting upright, all my body ached, especially my shoulders as I tried to flex it. “Old age must be catching up to me fast” I laughed to myself. Grabbing my phone, I opened Discord to check what was going on and I saw a new post by D_Stradasmus about “Writing as a NFT” a twitter post. ”Hmm, this looks interesting” I muttered as I got up, plugged in my system to power, turned it on, used my phone as an hotspot for internet connection for my laptop. The website opened, I connected my wallet, posted on Twitter as verification and not even giving a thought to what I was going to write, I started. The words spilled one after the other, fresh from my mind. It was as easy as turning on a tap and letting the waters flow. Great creativity really can be accomplished when you don’t give a mind to it.

And now I’m close to the end of this essay, bet you feel like I should keep writing yeah? Me too mate, me too but this is just me testing the waters, with a slight expectation, very slight that maybe, just maybe this piece might sell so that I can get myself a better generator that I can use to stabilize my circadian rhythm and not have to worry about whether the power will come on or not. Once I hop off this, it’ll be back to finalizing the Whitepaper and Roadmap for the next six hours and then get a little sleep. This is afterall…….. The Lamentations of a Founder.