The other day someone asked me a question. The question was:
If everything can break, can everything be fixed?
I say yes. Let me tell you why. I'm not an optimist or a pessimist. I'm a "It is what it is" person. Everything can be fixed. However, let me use a generic example:
When a pencil tip breaks, we usually push it off to the side - useless, stupid, broken. Right? Right. But, even if you grab glue and tape the poor graphite back to its home, it is not whole. It is fixed. There has been some work to fix that pencil, yeah? Obviously. The littlest things seem worthless to fix, but doing so we waste so much.
Now, to think of the person as a whole. I believe every single being that lives a life not in total sanctuary and cut off from the world will crack, chip, and even break. This is normal. This is a process. Through the process of life, people will reach obstacles. These obstacles can be easy, and extremely undauntingly difficult. So what happens? We crack, we chip. These cracks fill with clue, tape, love, affection, care, and time. They will be fixed. Someone who is a whole is entirely false. We change, just as everything does when they are fixed. A leaky faucet may need a new screw, or a new handle or something. It will never be as it was in a total, original whole.
It is fixed. Fixed is okay. Everyone needs some tape and glue every once in a while. When things break, they lose little pieces. A piece of graphite will lose some dust in the process. It will never be whole again. Whole is a false sense of peace. Fixed, however, shows strength, love, the will to keep going. Fixed is the most powerful thing a person can be.
So, next time that little crack or chip or shatter happens, remember. Get some glue, a little love, care, and affection and put it back together. Because it's never the end. You are loved, you are fixed, and you are wonderful.
So go be you with your glue, tape, and changed being. Change is good -- change is development. Embrace it!
