A lot of times we experience in our personal lives, mostly
what we have read in our books, on facebook walls & twitter. Though we
seldom realise them, here am I presenting my latest life lessons learnt first-hand!
It so happened that during one of the hot summer nights, I
was woken up by the clattering of the falling utensils in the kitchen. It was
1:30 am in the morning! O Boy, was I scared….was that a thief trying to break
into our house! Somehow, I mustered enough courage to go out of my room to see
what was happening. To make this inspection easier, I told myself that it could
have been just a stray cat who somehow sneaked into the kitchen and now was
unable to find its way out.
I was surprised at what I saw!! Thankfully there were no thieves !!!
But not even a cat was in sight…then what was that thing which had woken me up
in the middle of the night ?
My wife was also awake by now and she asked me what
happened? I was unable to comprehend the situation, so it was difficult for me
to put into words what was happening. Feeling bolder now, by the absence of any
external life forms, I went inside the kitchen. Couple of more utensils fell
off the stand meanwhile. Things were starting to get clearer…it was that the
shelf on which the utensils were placed was coming apart from the hooks. It was
tilted and that was making the utensils fall apart. I quickly pulled out the
remaining utensils and placed them on the slab, making as little noise as
possible. I sneaked back to my room to resume my broken slumber. In the
morning, it was revealed that the kitchen shelf had been infected with
“TERMITES” . So what looked fine from the outside was infact majorly infected
and made hollow from inside. Now the solution was not as easy to just fix the
shelf and move ahead in life. The presence of termite in one part of the house
raised alarms that similar damage would be there in the other part of the rooms
as well. So we decided to get the entire house pest controlled as leaving any
part of the house unattended could meant inviting the termites AGAIN !!
Lesson Learnt: If you
want to fix a problem, you need to find the cause and do a deep dive
analysis to fix it from the root!
A couple of days later, there was no water in the taps. Did
someone leave a running tap, I wondered. I recalled that there was some problem in the
boring well a fortnight back and the motor had recently been fixed. Initially
it was working fine but there was lot of mud in the water. However, strangely
though, the pressure of the pump was good outside but inside the house it was
oozing out in drops! What could have been the problem. So learning from the
termite problem, I decided to do a deep dive analysis and tried to figure out
the exact cause. Probable reasons which came out where – Motor not working
again, or the pipe system had some blockage etc etc.. Possible solutions looked
like getting a new motor pump and relaying the water pipes again. So with a
sure shot conviction that this was going to leave a dent in my pocket, we
called for the plumber. He came and switched on the motor and checked the rooms
where water flow was not there. Within a minute, he calmly pulled out the
nozzle of the tap where a net had been placed. It was blocked due to mud
particles and hence the water flow was squeezed!
Lesson Learnt: –
There cannot be one solution to all problems and we need to do the basic checks
as well before presuming the problem to bigger than it actually is!!!
The visit of the plumber did leave me short changed by Rs
200/- but, I guess, wiser in many ways!!
At all stages of our lives, we will be surrounded by
problems. It is not easy as it seems to know of all the solutions, that too
EVERYTIME! So keep an open mind to solve the problem. Just like the parachute,
it also works when OPEN!!
A special thanks to my friends who reminded me either
through FB, Whatsapp or call that it was almost an year that I hadnt shared a new blog..
Hope you enjoyed reading this and I would love to hear your
comments on this.
Have a great day and thanks for taking out time to read
this!!
