More glue

My son tried to join two pieces of plastic using some liquid PVA school glue. I explained that this was the wrong kind of glue to use; it wouldn’t work well.

Later, I noticed his project on the table. Instead of a little glue, he had now used a lot of glue.

This kind of error isn’t limited to children. Many of us make this kind of miscalculation too, knowingly or unknowingly.

Whether our fix is through money, attention, food, risk, abandon, control … Sometimes we think, “This isn’t the best solution, but maybe it will work if I have a lot of it.”

Like using the wrong kind of glue, trying to solve a problem with great quantities of the wrong solution can easily become a mess.