Maintenance is the work

After 5 years of running the local woodwork shop, the magic of the first few months of being in business may fade away - it does fade away for most people.

With such fading, the care you take when you sweep the floor in the morning or serve a customer in the afternoon may fade too. And each small decrease in care and engagement adds up, until the shop is no more.

Change happens all the time and it is fine to choose to change profession, lifestyle, or anything else. It is also fine, and can be most rewarding, to take care of something; to maintain something with a certain degree of engagement and love that is needed for it to stay, continue to exist and evolve with you.

Maintenance doesn’t require much effort, but it doesn’t happen by itself. And lack of maintenance corresponds to abandonment, making the abandoned thing disappear, at first slowly and then all of a sudden. This applies to businesses, bodies, minds, relationships, roads, houses, buildings of all sorts, and maybe your life too. That woodwork shop is all you need, then and now, if you resolve to maintain it with care.