Back when
my wife and I got married, her great uncle gave us an antique table. That was almost 10 years ago. To this day, I don’t know if it’s better
suited as firewood or if it’s actually worth something more. What I do know is this: It’s been broken since day 1. It’s not so far gone that it needs to be hauled
to the end of the driveway, but it can’t remain the way it is either.
We’ve been
tolerating this broken table for nearly 10 years now and I've finally decided
to fix it. Why? Because we had new
friends coming over. It’s really not a
big deal for us to sit at this broken table; it’s even ok when our family comes
over. When old friends come over, we
just don’t go into the dining room because they know us well enough and we’re
past the formality of sitting around a dinner table. This time though, it’s different. These folks don’t know us and we can’t let
them know that there’s something wrong with our house or anything in it; at
least not yet anyway.
So I
decided to fix the table.
Chantel and
I spent about an hour and $6 to repair what has been broken for our entire
marriage. Why did it take so long? We were comfortable with it. Even with the broken table, things were
ok. Every once in a while, I would
complain about it, every once in a while she would complain about it; but we never
realized how broken it was until we evaluated it from a different perspective;
a fresh, new perspective.
The table
is now fixed and fully functional.
I’m sure
the friends that came over would have been fully accepting of our broken table,
but we were fed up with it and had to do something about it.
I can’t
help but wonder why sometimes it takes an outside person for us to realize how
broken something is before we realize it’s significant enough for us to fix it.
Don’t let
things get so broken that it seems beyond repair. Take a look around the house for things that
might be broken.
Sometimes,
it can be fixed in a very short time with little to no expense.
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