Energy

SOL #21

March 22, 2009

Energy

I put down the magazine I had asked my dad to buy me; it had an interesting article about global warming and that help starts in our very houses. I thought a second about it.

¨We waste that much energy?” I doubted. I stood up from my bed to turn the lights off when I saw the fan. I stared at it for a second. Then it struck me. That line in the text, “That night we opened the windows to let the wind in and turned the air conditioning off.” It said. I knew that opening the window would mean dinner time for mosquitoes. But, the fan…I turned the fan on and turned the air conditioning off, I turned the lights off and stumbled towards my bed. I lay there thinking if it would make any difference at all. I will make a difference. You did the right thing. I thought.

An epiphany struck me…School. All that air conditioning. What a waste! I then wished. I wished that the air would breakdown tomorrow. I wished that the energy wouldn’t have to be used on something that wasn’t completely necessary. It wouldn’t hurt anybody…would it?