The Pickling Process

Posted on by Reena Saxena

The systems had been hacked, despite installing firewalls and meticulous planning. The experts were called in for damage repair, but her professional credibility had immensely suffered. Sheila had never found herself in such a pickle before.

She spent the next one week working with the experts, learning more about the vulnerability of each component, and how to rebuild it with longer and larger immunity.

Back home, her grandmother was waiting on the dining table, exuding a sense of calm. Sheila had a sudden epiphany, about the patience being developed with all the pickles she made every year, and which Sheila had failed to learn.

 

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15 thoughts on “The Pickling Process”

  4. smiled at the conclusion. So often the wear and tear is not from impatience, but from being unable to right-size the results of errors. Errors that, were someone else to make them, we might be inclined to say, “Don’t beat yourself up. No one is perfect.’ (easier said than done, when it happes to us, though).

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  8. Oops! No she has to get her credibility back. However that is life achievements are possible only by making mistakes and everybody is the same, but not too often!! P.S. The pickle looks yummy too!

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