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The universe's way of asking if you really meant it.
means A thing that blocks your path or progress, forcing you to climb over, dig under, or go around.
from From Latin obstaculum, built from ob- ('against, in the way of') plus stare ('to stand') — literally something that stands against you. The same 'stare' root gives us stand, state, and stature; the ob- shows up again in obstruct and obstinate, all words about things planted stubbornly in the way.
- stoic reframe
- Marcus Aurelius: the obstacle becomes the way.
- course design
- obstacle courses were invented for military training.
- root cousin
- shares stare with stand, state, and establish.
- legal sense
- obstruction of justice is literally being an obstacle.