Wisdom of Day !!!

Impossible

Impossible is not a fact, its an opinion.

Happy Diwali & Vikram Samvat 2072

 

So, the festival has gone as suddenly as it had arrived. Your colorful diyas now protectively hold tiny pools of melted wax and ash. Your rangolis are still radiant, albeit slightly disheveled.

As you walk on the streets this morning, you catch sight of last night's celebrations all around, and you probably see or hear yourself and your loved ones laughing, in that very spot that someone cracked a joke yesterday. Friends and extended family have now gone back home, making promises to meet again soon. 

The sweets and savories have now been stored away, and will be served at tea-time, as mementos of Diwali. The clothes and jewellery that you chose with great care, that made their grand appearance yesterday, have been put away for the next big occasion.

As all the festivities slowly recede into the distance, I ask you for a promise... that in your heart, you will let the lights remain. That in spirit, and in being, your celebrations will continue... that you will attempt to meet your loved ones a little more often and that the laughter that came in abundance yesterday, will make an appearance everyday.

Here's wishing you all a happy festive spirit, all year round.

Lots of love and laughter,
Hardik

- Received this message at start of last year (Vikarm Samvat 2071) and scheduling this post for the next year, as I firmly believe in this message.  To all my friends & family members... Happy Vikram Samvat 2072.

Wisdom of Day !!!

Be a voice, not an echo

Wisdom of Day !!!

Walk

As a child we learn to walk, 

as an adult we learn to walk away...

- Somewhere from facebook post 

 

Think Out of Box - Vanilla Ice Cream Puzzle

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

'This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It's also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem.....

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from the store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds "What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?" 

The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but sent an Engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn't start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, they got chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.

Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive back and forth etc.

In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavor. Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to check out the flavor.

Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn't start when it took less time. Eureka - Time was now the problem - not the vanilla ice cream!!!! The engineer quickly came up with the answer: "vapor lock".

It was happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavors allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, "the engine was still too hot for the vapor lock to dissipate"

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be simple only when we find the solution, with cool thinking.