online conversion of hurdles into opporChutney

 Modi is perhaps the only leader who speaks about “converting hurdles into opportunities”.

I am not any where near Modi to even appreciate him loudly 🙂

I had a rare occasion to suggest, “hurdle into opportunity” during my days of volunteering (1992–95) as a ‘back up support ‘ for freshers in yoga programs.

A lady “sir, I am a housewife with lot of work in the morning & evening, to look after my family of two kids, hubby, and parents-in-law. Instead of supporting, they all have turned into critics already, saying “who will do the cooking, washing, cleaning etc, if your yoga business is in the morning– evening hours?😡”

I am zero in house management. Incompetent to give ‘tips’ 🙏

Instead, I thought, “let me cook up a bogus story, and clandestinely infuse a concept, NON-INVASIVELY( medicos try non invasive, non intrusive examination of physiology 😜)

I told her:

“ Madam,

Your query is 100% genuine, practical & real.

I am not good at giving solutions. Instead, let us go through a BOGUS fictional story, invented by me, and I pray, you may feel INSPIRED to figure out the solution for your problem, by yourself 🙏

Story:

Imagine, you are a teenager, Good at sprinting 100 metres race, and selected at district level, and given 3 months to prepare for state level selection of 200 metres race. You are stinking_rich. A driver takes you to the “tracks” each morning at 5 am for a 3 hour practice, and at 4 pm for 2 hours training. At the end of 3 months, you are short of just 2 seconds to reach old records of 23 seconds for 200 metres.

Imagine, a tribal kid, impoverished, poor, but accidentally a competitor from his tribal hilly region. He too, ‘hopes’ to practice 🙏

His hurdles..

1)no track near his hill to practice.

2)his mom says “you can't go beyond my visibility range for your nonsense ( running 200 metres to-and-fro in vain). “

3) the immediate 200 metres from his hut is full of rocky boulders, pits, and uneven slope!

That kid, due to his tribal innocence, decides to give a try👍

He too managed to measure his-200 metres after 3 months….. 30 seconds 😅🤣 

He knows, 23 to 25 seconds is ‘good’ to participate in selection rounds. But, having ‘invested’ 3 months, daily 6 to 8 hours, he ‘braces’ himself for a defeat at ‘trials’ not without going for trials.

Trials

You did as ‘clocked’ on those tracks already 

That tribal kid 😳😳😳 21 seconds! ( Absence of rocks, pits, etc on groomed-track felt like chewing Halwa( a soft sweet dish🤣). 

The timekeeper equally surprised, STUPIFIED!!! ( unofficially, the kid & timekeeper both decide a private re-run for fun. That kid betters by ½ a second 😜)

Story over. ( My inspiration for manufacturing this bogus story was a true incident. A tribal lad, holding last van of a goods train in African jungle, noticed by a British officer, was picked up for olympics. His long-strides to keep pace with goods train helped him win a gold. His German competetor helped him to walk back from white marker, to leap from exact-marker, unmindful of losing to a better-fellow-competitor! )

Madam, an example for “hurdles can-be an opporChutney too! Matter of Perspective only🙏”

That lady, a moment later “okay 👍… I will wake up ½ an hour early, and sleep ½ an hour late. Thank you sir 🙏 “

I felt glad. My mind whispered silently ”exactly what we-too-were doing. Use sleep quota hours for spirituality“( any way MeditaShun reduces sleep_requirements)

Covertly yours,

psn(30 auGust, 2025)