Ever since we were born, we see a myriad of “broken” entities – broken things, broken emotions, broken promises, broken trust, broken relationships etc.  However, it doesn’t quite mean that broken entities can’t be fixed. One such incident that happened today makes me optimistic.

It so happened that I, along with my better half, went out to dine at an Italian restaurant. When we reached there, we were put in a waiting list with 45 minutes estimated wait time. So, we thought we would take a stroll in downtown menlo park. An Indian handicraft store soon caught our attention. We decided to check it out. Amazing artwork and immaculate craftsmanship on intricately carved marble stones left us wondering. A beautifully carved Taj Mahal made from white marble caught my attention. I was curious to know what it was priced for. After searching for it for a while, I decided to look beneath the art-piece.  So, I lifted it with my hands and inverted it but before I could be happy to find the price sticker and read the price of the item, there were quite a few things falling off and breaking from the taj mahal. The dome, the minarets, the roof – everything fell piece by piece and broke. And this was after my better half had warned me to carefully handle the items sighting a sticker on the display shelf that read like “its nice to look at, great to handle, but if it breaks, its considered sold”. Cutting long story short, I had to buy the Taj Mahal in its broken  form. And this is how it looked:

Broken Taj

Before I used my shoe-goo to stick it altogether :

Fixed Taj

The moral of the story is :

“If something is broken, doesn’t mean it can’t always be fixed“

PS : An interesting observation is that I have been singing and playing the song “Free Falling”  (John Mayer’s version)  the whole day before something actually “fell off freely” at the end of the day. LOL