A couple of days ago a friend of mind posted a status on
facebook: he wished that were there to be a time machine; he would go back and
change his past.
How many of us think about important or at times not-so
important decisions that we wished we could change? Almost everyone.
I pondered over this, I consciously thought of the things I
would have done differently had I been in possession of a time machine. It
dawned on me that doing one thing differently would in turn bring about a
different set of problems, a new set of mistakes and henceforth a different set
of reasons to be dissatisfied with life. No matter how many times we use this
time machine, we would be tempted to go back to our past. Take for instance
travelling. A wrong turn not only helps prevents us from repeating the same
mistake but also helps us in finding an alternate way to reach our destination
or better still find a way no one has yet discovered. Life teaches us things in
queer ways. In all honesty I too get troubled by the dark humour that “Life”
has a penchant for. At the end of the day though, there is no light without dark.
The lessons that we learn are taught to us in outlandish ways, we are made to
go round a circle only to realise that the first step was a mistake. Something
similar happened to me today, something that triggered this post.
One of my speakers wasn’t working - not a big deal - but
when the time came to watch the season finale of Glee, I had to do something
about it. It just so happens that I have an NSX-0757 Aiwa music system, a
powerful system about 15(or more) years old with 5 speakers(one central 8ohm,
two surround sound 16ohm and two 6ohm rectangular speakers). This system has
been out of use for the media it uses is obsolete (CD’s, Cassets and FM) the
speakers however, give out awesome sound quality (made in Japan). I took out
the wiring, scrapped the plastic to get rust free wires, tried them, tested the
pins – the works. All the speakers worked perfectly when tested individually
and I could replace the ruined speaker with any one of them, which I did –
initially. 6 great sounding speakers however makes one greedy. I did everything
in my power to work the Aiwa amplifier to take the input from my computer – to no
avail. Finally when all was done, I literally sat down on the floor only to
notice that the spoiled speaker had a simple break in its wiring. A 5 minute
fix as opposed to an hours worth of tinkering with the Aiwa music system,
googling impedence, connections, NSX systems etc.
Lesson learnt – First address the root of the problem rather
than uprooting a beautiful tree, pruning it and trying to plant it in your
backyard.
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