{"id":1466,"date":"2020-10-06T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyinfinitum.com\/gwumpastories\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:39:50","slug":"zen-cube-very-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkeyinfinitum.com\/gwumpastories\/2020\/10\/06\/zen-cube-very-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen cube very much"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know if I ever told y’all the story of the black Zen cube I have. It was a gift from the grandboy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he was like 5 yrs old he wanted to try solving one of my cubes. I let him have a go and went off to do other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He came back later and asked me to help him. He’d chewed off a handful of the stickers. I don’t know where they all went but he handed me the cube and a couple of the stickers and asked for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a choice. I could get angry and try to find the missing stickers, then try to solve the cube without putting them back on, then put the missing stickers back on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He looked at me with his big eyes and hopeful face and asked me again if I could fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I did. I removed all the stickers and handed him the cube. I told him I wasn’t happy that he chewed the others off, but maybe later he could use another one if he proved to me he wouldn’t chew my things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had fun with the black cube for a while til he got bored and handed it back to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now it’s a desktop remember that I can take an accidental mishap and turn it into a peaceful – and sometimes beautiful thing. When I’m feeling really frustrated I sometimes pick this up and fiddle with it, knowing it doesn’t matter if I “solve” it or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s always solved and always broken no matter what. Kind of like each of us are. That helps sometimes \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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