All the kings horses,and all the kings men

If it's broken, it's broken. That's what I think at least. I mean you can fix it (if you can't, Chris Martin will surely try, he did say so), but even if it starts working/functioning/showing signs of life, it will never be the same.And what's "it"? Well.....anything :).E.g. a vase.You brake it, you buy some glue, you glue it up/fix it, fill it with water, and it now looks almost the same (lets say we accept "almost" as satisfactory) as you can obviously see the cracks, it has almost the same shape, and it almost gets the job done. Except that it does not, since here and there you get a small water leakage, and those poor plants kept in the vase need that water.But hey, "almost the same as before breaking" is good, right? Yes, it is, however it is not enough.It happens that, in time, the breaking event comes back to haunt you, the glue loosens up, you come back home, you find the vase either back to numerous scattered peaces or without water as it all leaked out.In either case, your plants are dead, vase is useless and the only thing you can do is throw it away and be pissed off about it ( actually, also in my not-so-humble opinion, being pissed off is really not logical, but I will leave that for some other post :) ).

As you already understood by now, I am not talking about vases here :). I mean, I am, it all applies to vases as well, but there you have it easy, you break a vase, you buy a new one, no biggie (I remember my mom did not agree with this one when I was a kid, and I kept breaking vases in the house.Those were situations of imminent threats of ass whooping).

So what if instead of a vase you have let's say, a relationship? The agony of trying to keep a broken relationship is, the way I see it, not worth the final goal, as at the end you will probably find that very relationship scattered around the house or leaking water when it should in fact not leak a single drop.

If that relationship is a broken friendship, a situation where a friend of yours did something behind your back, can you really be friends again? I mean how awkward would those coffee breaks, that friends usually have, be when that messy shit that happened stands right there, on the table, between you? How do you look through that so you can see your, once great friend,and keep your now broken friendship from leaking water?

What if it's a screwed up business relationship, let's say between you and your boss? Your boss talks shit about you, offends you, and working for him really starts to lose all sense it ever had. Then he tries to be polite with you, but you know that if he was an ass once, he will be again, cause being an ass is an illness you are born with, not something that can be cured.

What about break-ups? A couple breaks up and tries to get back again. These are the cases that sometimes actually stay glued up until the end of their lives, but what nobody wants to admit is that the stench of what happened to cause the break up never leaves the house.Or my personal all-time favorite, a couple breaks-up and then one of them comes up and says "we should totally stay friends". Friends?? That would be an equivalent of a couple having a dog, and the dog dies so one of them comes up and says "the dog died but let's pretend that he is still alive, and keep it in the house". No-can-do. He's dead, and he stinks. The dog should be buried, and the burial will be a painful thing, something that everyone would like to forget. If there was any stronger emotion between the people in the couple, break-up will be messy and that cannot end in a friendship as the cause of what happened will haunt you.That is if you cared enough. If not, well, yes than at the moment of break-up you will probably suggest to remain friends and stay calm, although staying calm is the total opposite of those strong emotions I mentioned earlier that should exist in every relationship,and are the very reason why two people ARE in a relationship.

I remember an old English children poem/riddle about an egg called Humpty Dumpty that sits on the top of the wall:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

It is THE essence of what I was writing about here. If it's broken, it's broken, and all the kings horses and all the kings men can gather up,try to put it back again but in the end they will probably go to the nearest pub and get a beer, feeling miserable because they did not make it. Maybe we should not bother the kings horses and men, but simply say our goodbyes to humpty, and move along.

And as for vases, if you don't want to get your ass whopped, don't play ball in the house.Take your ball outside, and play where there are no vases to break.