Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Do you untie knots?

Friendship bands were the 'in' thing when I was in secondary school. I remember going to the sewing shop at AMK central after school to buy a colourful assortment of threads and then running home to make these bands for my friends.

The thing I dreaded most from this whole process wasn't the time involved to painstakingly make these friendship bands. The most stress-inducing part was in fact, disbanding the thread, which was held together by two questionable pieces of paper at its ends. Sometimes, when you pull it right, the thread comes off effortlessly in one swift motion. At other times, a simple tug could wedge the thread into a clumsy ball of knots. The more you pulled, the more entangled it gets. And when that happens, I have to sit myself down to delicately try and figure out how to untie the knots I've created. If I'm lucky, I find the problem areas and wriggle the thread out of its predicament. When the knots seem more complex than it looks, I find myself exasperated and edgy, and I simply dump the now-deemed-useless thread aside and use a different colour instead.

As with all other gimmicks, the trend slowly died off and soon, my friendship band making days were over. Earlier this month, while trying to inject some creativity into Hil's birthday present, I revisited my art & craft box (yes, I do have one) and found the remaining threads comfortable nested in the corner - with the knots still intact.

Life can be full of knots. Some are easy to untangle, others are slightly more complicated. I thought about the knots in my life and how I intend to untangle them. Some are easy and require simple problem-solving skills. Others are more complicated and require more head-banging deliberation. I certainly don't want to dump these knots aside and rediscover that they're still here 10 years later. But truth be told, these knots can be a toughie.

But when it's all said, I seem to have forgotten one thing - To ask for help.

Jesus sat beside me as I delicately try and figure out how to untie the knots I've created. Little did I know that all I had to do was ask, "Do you untie knots?"

We all know the answer to that one.

Posted by Jo at 10:36 PM