My enjoyment can be your predicament.
What can be a source of enjoyment for me can be a great inconvenience for some one else. Mostly it is related to nature but there are some man made toys of pleasure and torture.
When I posted some photos and video of season's first snowfall in Memphis, I was holding the local newspaper in my hands. It carried lot of stories of people inconvenienced due to this. While on one column it said about how kids were enjoying it in their front yards, it also reported the number of cases of fatal crashes when roads becomes too icy to negotiate, power cuts and jams on roads. When snow fall turns into snow and sleet pounding creating like a blizzard like situation, it is no more enjoyment.
Those living in the hot climates go to hills to experience and enjoy cold and snow fall. They would never know the hardships faced by people living there when there life is totally disrupted by heavy snow, land slides and cloud bursts. Nepal and Kedarnath are fresh in our minds.
Similarly people living away from oceans crave to go to beaches to enjoy. They would never know the hardships faced by the people living in coastal areas. Almost every year the high tides or angry oceans in the form of tsunami creat havoc in their life. Similar fate is reserved for people living on the river banks whose life is annually devastated by floods.
These are natural calamities and humans have to endure them.
What about man made situations where a late night party or a wedding procession or a political rally disrupts the life of people? Then there are road blocks caused by VIP movements inconveniencing the public at large. At least some order can be maintain here.
But then as I said my enjoyment can be your predicament.
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