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Life's A Chibi: Simple Repairs

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If a personal item is damaged or broken, be it a picture frame, a computer error or even a plushy, and the owner of that item has no skills on knowing how to fix it, that person can feel very lost and down.

Lets take a plushy for an example since this is a furry based image: Every furry has a plushy. Some have large ones, some have normal size ones and some have tiny ones. They snuggle with them, carry them around, show them off and put them on display. They bond with it, reaching for it when they need some reinsurance. It becomes their comfort item - their personal security object. The more they hug and travel with it, the more beaten up it becomes. It starts to show age. Soon, a hole starts to show and exposed fluff starts to poof out. You start to worry about it. You fear of making the hole bigger or causing more damage to your security plushy. You are afraid of replacing it with another since you have already maintained a relationship with it for many years. You become so tender with it because you are afraid of the hole opening some more or more damage would start to show.

You find a friend who is willing to do the necessary repairs on you stuff animal, trying to closing the wounds on it with the greatest of care. Your friend knows how much you care for the stuff animal by the way you talk about it and handle it. As your friend works his/her magic, you sit by and watch, much like watching a close friend going into surgery. Your plushy is a part of you, and you want the best care given to it while its under the needle. When your friend finishes his/her magical skills in stitching, you get the plushy back, the hole closed and unnoticeable like nothing ever happened. You're happy to have your personal item back in your procession, still in one piece and ready for many more years of love and care. With something so simple as stitching close a small hole on a plushy, a sense of accomplishment hits your friend as you smile and cradle your stuff animal.

This is a simple image, basically showing how a simple kind act such as stitching a small hole shut on a plushy your friend cares a lot for, can make the other person very happy and put a smile on their face. A small and a sense of satisfaction is a large reward you can get after doing a kind act to another.


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Another very true piece. This one happens to hit me very close to home because it reminds me of different things that people have fixed for me over the years.

For instance, as a child I carried around a stuffed rabbit. I carried this thing for ages and I still have it, even going on 23 years old, and I still take comfort when I look at him. I can't even count the number of times my mother sewed the thing up.

And there's a number of different things my boyfriend has helped me with.

When you have someone you know you can go to for help, it's a huge comfort. The other big thing, is sometimes that person can also teach you how to do it. Makes it more fun because you can talk about it.