Sometimes broken things do not need to be fixed; they are better thrown away.
Sometimes things break not by accident but because they’ve been in use for so long they outlive their relevance. And sometimes it’s okay to acknowledge that it’s time to move on.
When time moves, it’s best to move with it. Because it brings change, like it or not. And change transforms things, in bits at first.
When little changes occur, we usually do not recognise it. It’s like growing old, you don’t really notice it until one day you look in the mirror and there it is, the first grey hair.
But it didn’t just happen, it’s been happening every day since you were born. That’s the thing with time. It happens. It moves. Everyday. It transforms things in the least evident way. Till they become too used, archaic and finally broken.
Maybe along the way a piece of it could have been modified to fit the time, adjusted and refitted. Fortified even.
Just maybe the cracks could have been filled long before it broke. But it would matter little if it wasn’t meant to be fixed.
On the other hand, consider clichés. They’ve been around for so long that we now take them for granted. But we might be ignoring them to our detriment.
Because they’ve survived the changing of time for so long because they work. They are relevant. Even today.
So you wonder, what differentiates a cliche from a broken instruction? I say time.
Antifragility.
Ask yourself: how well has this concept survived under the harshest conditions over time?
A trodden path does not necessarily still lead somewhere relevant; it could be where fools go to die.
Prompt: Old ways
