…may, in truth, actually indicate that no one’s looking at it.
Just like the winter boots that accumulate in the hallway and are not put in the closet until June or July, (writing from a Canadian perspective), we become accustomed to how things are without a second thought.
Like a pen that’s invisible until it runs out of ink, a pencil until it needs sharpening, or the boots in the hallway until we trip over them in our sandals, what ‘ain’t broke’ often remains invisible and unchanged, whether it’s actually working effectively or not, until it breaks.
A visually impaired friend of mine once commented that to her a certain part of life is “all of a sudden.” In a similar manner, some of what we may not be looking at because it ‘ain’t broke,’ we have become blind or visually impaired to which may turn up, ‘all of a sudden’ when we least expect it.
Taking a look at what ‘ain’t broke’ once in a while to see if it needs looking at again may turn up some interesting new opportunities not noticed before.
Written while listening to some Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
William Kerr And associates 