dial S for Stucked!

The other day, I was attempting to complete a puzzle on a game - The Mystery of Dire Grove. One of the puzzle had me thinking. It was something like this. A circular shaped puzzle which acts like a security barrier between me and another room - ala Lara Croft style. What I had to do to unlock the lock was to align all the pieces together ... something like aligning the planets like such:

but knowing that each 'planets' revolves the 'sun' at different time durations. SO.. to get them to align isn't as simple.


Or like turning the dial of a safe. Every time you lock in a number correctly, the locking mechanism behind it will slowly unlatch the hooks which encases the treasures stored within. If you get it wrong, the latch flicks back in, locking back everything in place.



Sometimes I feel this is exactly how problems come about. No matter how careful we are in avoiding them, but somehow, circumstances happen, which can challenge whatever SOPs (standard operating procedures) we have been following. Nothing is perfect. Whatever preparations can be undone easily.

However this is not to say we should stop planning ahead into the future. What I am trying to say is that we should not punish ourselves for every problem we did not expect. These things happen, albeit not often. Even if we tried to improve the system, there is this such thing called the "normalising effect".

Suppose if we installed the best possible anti-virus into our laptop; most definitely we would expect that our laptop would turn into Ford Knox right? Well, theoretically, yes. But, due to negligence, we would then tend to surf the net a little more, we would leave our laptop on all day long, we would download movies/songs indiscriminately. Now that is like a negative feedback working, a yin-yang universal law, the normalising effect. It may not occur immediately, but it does happen. Somehow when we try to improve an aspect of something, we end up compromising... or a better word... exposing the weakness of another.

But to reiterate again....

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. But be wary, no matter how much preparation effort into something, we should always expect the unexpected. Don't be afraid of not succeeding always.

Dial S for Solving. Solving your puzzles the best way you can.

What's the point you ask? A friend of mine would say, "A problem solved is a problem lessened". I say, "A problem solved, is a lesson learned".