The history of the shoelace

Once there was a man who was always in a hurry.

He was in a hurry to work, he was in a hurry to go home, he was also in a hurry to sleep.

One morning, when he was already running late, he noticed that his shoelace had broken.

He angrily kicked off his shoes, cursed, and even kicked the chair in anger.

Something fell from the chair — an old photo of his wife laughing.

The man stopped for a moment.

He just looked at the picture, and it was as if the haste had suddenly been taken out of him.

He sat down, took his shoes in his hands and began tying them again.

He didn't rush, he didn't curse. He just laced — slowly, carefully.

His wife's voice rang out in him:

"If something breaks, you don't have to throw it away, you have to put it back together."

He didn't make it to work on time that day.

But somehow everyone was kinder to him.

He received a smile in the store, a coffee from his colleague, and in the evening, when he got home, his son came to him:

"Dad, you're different today. You're so…calm."

The man just smiled and said:

"I learned to tie my shoes again this morning."

Lesson:

The world doesn't end when

when something breaks — but when we no longer bother to fix it.

Patience is sometimes just a shoelace, but the whole day depends on it.