Pit Stops in Life

 Pit Stops in Life

In our lifelong travels, we can't blame ourselves when most of us tend to be looking far ahead at our destination when it will be light years, if at all, before we will reach that point.  Not in the F1 Race where the Pit Stop is a major-major milestone and very much an integral part of the grueling F1 race.  See this GIF ?  Time is damn critical at every pit stop.  In fact, they are slotted to complete their myriad tasks and checks IN PARALLEL all within a few seconds.  And what's the established record to date ?  It's 1.9 seconds by the Red Bull F1 Team.

Every pit stop in the F1 race is very much akin to those intermediate stops in our life.  And see how time-constrained each of the role players in the pit stop.  And while the pit stop teams go through that frenetic pace of their tasks, during that pit stop, tje F1 race driver needs to REFRESH, RE-ENERGIZE and RESTART befpre he embarks on the next lap.

As you see yourself as the driver right behind that steering wheel, you need to be aware that you worked your butts off to build that initial 'nest egg' enough for the next lap, so you don't want to squander it with one fell swoop.  That pit stop is NOT the time to be buttering both sides of the bread.  Unfortunately, for some of us, during those pit stops, we seem to take our own sweet times, totally oblivious that the clock is ticking.

This akin to the final checks performed on the ship before it gets out of the dry dock.  There is just NO ROOM for ERROR. be it you're into an F1 race or at the dry dock.  I'd like to quote John Wall, the disgruntled NBA star player from Washington unceremoniously traded to Houston.  So, when he finally went into the match against his former team, he poured it out to win. In the aftermath, he was quoted:  'I THOUGHT THEY THOUGHT I WAS DONE SO I DID WHAT I DID TODAY'.  Whew ! It seems the stakeholders thought he was a spent force so he got traded.  He had the last laugh though.  

Take the case of docking or mooring your boat and most marinas are rigidly configured.  So, that means, docking your boat will need lots of your dexterity as you wiggle your way through the maze and even some choke points as things get narrower.  Such is life as well.  As you aim to dock, the roads get much narrower

I'd like to cap off this piece from the Hyderabad Youth for Christ [YFC] @ https://www.hyderabadyfc.org/youthtube/2020/10/23/handling-lifes-pit-stops wherein the given is stated, i.e. LIFE is a RACE and what could be your pit stop ?  it could be when you graduated from school.  It could be when you successfully passed the state board exams.  It could be when you received your professional certification.  In summary, never undervalue the pit stops in your life.  Else, you may not reach your destination at the time you want to.❗