Engine Room

Hello Readers 

Hope you all are well!

We welcome yet another new year with happiness and zeal, thanks to all my readers who have always kept me motivated to write more every year.

Some fresh thoughts to begin this year with synergy.

There was a time in the history of transportation when all the crucial means of transport was running on steam, the engine room or the popularly called boiler rooms were the heart of trains, ships and mechanized industries.

Until the boom of the internal combustion engines and electric powered engines, steam engines ruled all along.

So what would it take to work in an engine room?

These two words actually are what it takes: pressure and time.

The boiler pressure which is concealed with water that converts it into steam, and the time taken to bring that pressure would determine the performance of the engine. 

Working in an engine room was at times challenging because to maintain that pressure always was a gruesome task, as the fireman had to open the burner doors to feed boilers with more and more coal to keep the pistons going.

One of the biggest boilers were found in the fateful ship Titanic it is said that if we plan to power entire London using the amount of coal which was used in Titanic it would last for 10 years!

Well, the world moved on thanks to great inventors like Étienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer who introduced this world to internal combustion engines,the world could think beyond steam, and the face of the engine phenomenally changed forever.

Courtesy Google images. An intellectual & financial engine )

A trifling comparison

Now imagine, your mind is the engine room; at first, it needs some constant fuel to keep itself pumped! These are your thoughts good or bad, it burns like coal. Once the coal starts burning, it gives out the soot and the smoke that is how you react to your point of view.

The steam is your intellect, which analysis thoughts with the help of the boiler that is your brain and ultimately pushes the piston rod to make the vehicle your body move forward physically or mentally, our lives are all about keeping this vehicle up and running on the wheels of joy and sadness on the rails of destiny.

Maturity is the time you took to boil the water of experience and understanding life!

When you reach the next station while travelling on a train or a port in a ship, you would not know much about new places but, you manage to find out that is experience.

Trains don’t stop just because the loco piolet doesn’t like the station. Similarly, life is a journey which all start without knowing the end, keep your engine room running by using only the coal available ( good thoughts) and discarding the stones and pebbles(bad ideas).

 So please keep doing what you do and get better at it until you choose to move on something new and the cycle continues.

Let this year plant  thoughts of compassion and empathy to all of us.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes:

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

The quest to become a great mind is challenging and beautiful, let’s sign up.

Thanks a lot for your support as always.

Helios.