I have been worrying about the light bulb above our stairs since we moved in this townhouse. Many times I looked up the ceiling then I thought “there would be nothing we can do about it if this bulb was broken”. It is at least 4 meters high from the ground (actually the stairs), which is out of a distance that we could handle even with a chair or anything we could use to reach. It’s like a mission impossible. I used to imagine that it was done by some professionals who had a special ladder when they built this house, although it sounds quite unrealistic because even the light bulb with the best quality would not last for more than 5 years, which is much younger than the age of this building would have. Anyway I didn’t bother thinking too much about it for quite a while, and I didn’t even try to really see whether I could handle the worst situation.

But guess what? The bulb was broken tonight. The first thing came to my mind was “well, this is not happening!!” But unfortunately it was. I took a little while to estimate the situation and in no more half a minute, I made up my mind. Maybe I can climb up and stand on the handrails!!!!! I did it, with my right hand tightly grabbing the bedroom’s door frame, left hand streching out to reach the bulb. It does need a little bit acrobat skills and it looks absolutely dangerous, but I made it!!!!

I was just so surprised to find out the fact that the thing I have been wondering and worrying for such a long time is not that hard at all as what I thought. The only thing I need is to take actions and give it a shot with my actual physical movement, not just some bloody imaginary spatial operation in the mind. Eyes sometimes could lie to us, so could the brain. So if there is anything I could learn from today, I would take it down as a lesson which is “nothing is impossible or at least nothing is really difficult if you do get yourself into it”.