OBSTACLES - A MIRAGE!

OBSTACLES – A MIRAGE!

            It is based on an event happened in my life recently.  I had to have a transfer to Ludhiana in Punjab which is in the northern part of India.  I cursed the time of transfer since the area is under extreme winter as I am not acclimatised to it.  I was accommodated in a room  which is about one kilometre away from my Office.  Daily I start my journey at 8o’clock in the morning.  I prefer walking to cycling.  Reason is funny – I can speak to my beloved wife who is at my home in Trivandrum, (Kerala) which is over 3500 kilometres from my place of posting.  I had an STD package having monthly unlimited talk time and hence I wanted to speak to her without any interruptions since all passers-bye are strangers to me.

            I still recollect.  It was on 30th of January this year.  As usual, I came out of my room  for my routine journey to office. Surprise! I could not see anything but only  white.   Despite my winter clothing, I was still feeling cold.  The atmosphere is thickly fogged.  I could not see what was there in front of me- I felt.  Enjoying beauty of the whitest white for the first time, even forgetting  to speak to my wife, I walked forward.  When I moved further, I could see trees one-by-one.  When I moved further closer to the trees, I found no fog there near to me.  I was able to see the tree clearly.  It was wholly against my initial perception of nothing could be seen in the dense fog. 

            From this, I leant a lesson that when you face an obstacle(problem) far from a distance, you feel the problem is unsolvable.  When you really go closer to the obstacle, the problem vanishes.

            I uttered myself, “All that appears so is not a problem”.