Sweet and sour

We were having dinner in the village near Munger,Gautam Sigh a bhoomihar had taken us to his ancestral house. We had a grueling outing of badminton match in the morning against railways in their court,we had gone there representing IOC,Barauni Refinery. It was in December,1971 and that day was chura dahi festival.
We were sitting around a table full of sweets of all varieties, chura,dahi and pickle. I tentatively ate a few sweets and found my tongue was not able take any more sweet. Gautam looked at me and said " Roydada you cannot stop,so much is left."
"No,yar,can't take any more of sweet my tongue is saturated. "
He laughed and said , "That's why the pickle,you take that and it will help to rejuvenate your taste bud and then take more sweet."
Yes,friends in life too if we don't have challenges or problems and when those get resolved then the satisfaction what we get cannot be substituted by anything. It has been about 20 years since my retirement but still I love solving problems be it in office ,society or personal issues.
For example the other day my wife was struggling with Amazon Firestick in our bedroom TV,mind it I am no TV mechanic but could resolve the issue by following some fuzzy logic. After resolving I felt as though I have reached the peak of Mount Everest ,yes that's the kind of kick I got.
Now I am deeply involved in resolving an issue related with water pump which supplies water to 3 overhead tanks placed on the top of three 11storied towers consisting of more than 220 flats in our housing complex which came into existence in 1984,the original pump supplier BE pump has shut shop some 8 years back and out of 3 pumps we are now relying on1 pump as spares are not available for the other 2. I used my resources and located some people dealing with BE pump . It was like detective work burrowing the details matching with our system. This process of working out a solution is kicking up my adrenaline as we are coming closer to the solution and which is an engineering solution. 
Like the rest of the occupants I had the choice of not getting involved but as I mentioned the problem resolving is like pickle to me so that the sweetness of success I can relish. All the equipment are about 40 years old and there are recurring problem, problems related with lifts,HV,LV switchgear,transformers, DG set etc gets referred to me.
Very recently i got drive gear assembly of lift replaced.Routinely we are replacing the rope of the lifts. Three months back i got supervised the repair of the generator of DG set. My postulation about life is that most of the problems are man made and is possible to resolve, in the process your wits get sharpened no matter which age you are in numerically. In other words you will forget about your age as society still needs you.
I wrote this piece for my retired friends,resolve your problem by yourself, I know children are there to take care but slowly you will become redundant due to over dependence.
 I always end my such blog with my tag line "take it or leave it!" Choice is yours.

Remember!
"Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.” Charles De Montesquieu