Post by topiarystepmom on Jul 19, 2016 3:21:17 GMT
Handling Broken Glass
Posted on 10/08/14, 08:05 pm
Sometimes, we break a glass – we are filling it with water or another beverage or we are washing it or drying it or putting it away – and it simply slips out of our hands…and it breaks.
CRASH – it splatters and splinters on the ground or table or maybe in the sink. Some of the pieces of the glass are big, broken chunks. Others are smaller, splinter or granular type pieces (some of which we will find only months after we have cleaned up the mess)
So there we are – with a big, potentially dangerous mess on our hands. We gingerly try to pick up the bigger pieces pincher style – with out thumb and fore finger. One by one we pick the pieces up and toss them in the garbage. But we dare not try and pick up those little pieces by hand. Because we know that if we do, we are probably going to get badly cut. So we get them up another way – we use a vacuum, a broom or a piece of cardboard and get everything tidy.
The point of this is that breaking the glass was an accident. It wasn’t done on purpose - Nobody got anything out of it – And yet, it is a mess that begs to be avoided. Nobody wants to deal with broken glass – And when we have to deal with it, we know to do so with great care. And once we deal with – that’s it - it’s over. The broken pieces are thrown away – we don’t mourn the broken glass and, most important, we don’t try to put the glass back together again. Because even if we could find all those splintered and minute pieces of glass, and even if we could glue the whole thing back together, it wouldn’t hold up. The beverages would leak out of it and the glass would essentially be rendered useless.
Nor we can’t get too upset about it – because, in the end, it’s just a glass – the best thing we can do is clean it up and then go about our business.
I like to compare our relationship with our EC to that broken glass. The relationship was totally destroyed. When we did try and piece it back together, we found that the glass was useless – it could not hold any fluids and we were keeping an old, unusable glass in our cabinets. No amount of effort could every put it back together so that it could be useful again.
Posted on 10/08/14, 08:05 pm
Sometimes, we break a glass – we are filling it with water or another beverage or we are washing it or drying it or putting it away – and it simply slips out of our hands…and it breaks.
CRASH – it splatters and splinters on the ground or table or maybe in the sink. Some of the pieces of the glass are big, broken chunks. Others are smaller, splinter or granular type pieces (some of which we will find only months after we have cleaned up the mess)
So there we are – with a big, potentially dangerous mess on our hands. We gingerly try to pick up the bigger pieces pincher style – with out thumb and fore finger. One by one we pick the pieces up and toss them in the garbage. But we dare not try and pick up those little pieces by hand. Because we know that if we do, we are probably going to get badly cut. So we get them up another way – we use a vacuum, a broom or a piece of cardboard and get everything tidy.
The point of this is that breaking the glass was an accident. It wasn’t done on purpose - Nobody got anything out of it – And yet, it is a mess that begs to be avoided. Nobody wants to deal with broken glass – And when we have to deal with it, we know to do so with great care. And once we deal with – that’s it - it’s over. The broken pieces are thrown away – we don’t mourn the broken glass and, most important, we don’t try to put the glass back together again. Because even if we could find all those splintered and minute pieces of glass, and even if we could glue the whole thing back together, it wouldn’t hold up. The beverages would leak out of it and the glass would essentially be rendered useless.
Nor we can’t get too upset about it – because, in the end, it’s just a glass – the best thing we can do is clean it up and then go about our business.
I like to compare our relationship with our EC to that broken glass. The relationship was totally destroyed. When we did try and piece it back together, we found that the glass was useless – it could not hold any fluids and we were keeping an old, unusable glass in our cabinets. No amount of effort could every put it back together so that it could be useful again.
