It can travel over ice...
It can travel over land...
It can travel over water...
It can travel over almost any surface...
It can seamlessly travel from one type of surface to another...
So I spotted this hovercraft at the beach. While I knew this craft is called a hovercraft, I wasn't entirely sure why it is called so.
Turns out, a hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the hull, or air cushion, that is slightly above atmospheric pressure. The pressure difference between the higher pressure air below the hull and lower pressure ambient air above it produces lift, which causes the hull to float above the running surface. [ Source: Wikipedia ]
Which essentially means that this thing practically moves by floating on air, flying, in a way, irrespective of the surface area it is moving on.
One part boat, one part airplane and one part helicopter. In fact, a hovercraft is operated by a pilot more like an aircraft than a captain as a marine vessel.
Now only if we could remotely be as versatile as this magnificent craft by:
- performing uniformly across all kinds of pressures and situations.
- being uniform in our mindset while evaluating every person and situation we come across.
- keeping our cool & staying rational at all times irrespective of the situation at hand.
- avoiding/minimizing friction as we move through different phases of our relationships, career and life.
While all of this seems nearly impossible, in challenging times perhaps, we can borrow a leaf from the hovercraft's book, by trying to adapt to the surroundings, the way it does when it seamlessly moves from one surface type to another. A hovercraft is extremely noisy, so is our mind, at times, but till the time it helps us float/glide through with minimal friction against our surroundings/principles, the noisy ride might just be worth it.
Onwards and upwards.
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