Crazy glue. A great way to fix things from trinkets, crafts, and use for small house repairs. It's so easy to use, anyone can do it, just pop the top, snip the tip, apply where needed, stick that thumb tack needle cap down the tip hole when you're done, and viola! Project complete. The problem presents itself when you need to use it...
...A SECOND TIME.
Half the time, that little tack cap breaks off, or it comes out great, but the glue itself has hardened like my coworker at the open space volleyball courts during the cherry festival, and glue just won't come out. What do you instinctively do? Squeeze that lil' tube to see of you get it to come out so you can glue the head back on your mom's ceramic angel she got from your late grandmother. Whoops, that's why we don't throw the football in the house...
At this point two things can happen. 1.) nothing, the glue has hardened to the point there's no way it's coming again and your tube is ruined. Or 2.) you squeeze hard enough and that glue comes shooting out like virgin on prom night promptly gluing your balls to your leg.
This is where I give the public service announcement to never use Krazy Glue in the nude... much like frying bacon.
This whole situation comes from the glue sitting stagnant and not being used as it was intended. This was what flagged the analogy in my head. Our recovery is like a tube of Krazy glue. We isolate, go stagnant, and can make a mess of lives.
The moral to this story is that we have to stay in not only our recovery but our lives in general. When we isolate, let our mental health go unbalanced or stagnant, we run the risk of creating a mess that's going to be difficult to clean up. Think relapse, treatment or legal issues.
So join me in staying active in our recovery so none of us have to glue our balls to our legs again.
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