For the past year, Jon and I have been living with a leaky faucet and two kitchen drawers that were really sticky when we opened them! Finally we called the landlord to fix a few things around the house. It took a little while, but now we are astonished at how used to the broken things we were, and how nice it is to not have the constant dripping of a faucet, and the pitcher beneath to catch the water, and how much we were used to tugging at the drawers to get them open. It is so nice to have a kitchen that functions so well now.
It has made me think about what other small annoyances we have gotten used to in life, which we simply accommodate, while with a little effort and communication we may be able to get rid of! I think the gluten-free diet was me finally fed up with some digestive issues... such an easy thing to solve with simply eating healthier and avoiding foods.
I'm still pondering what else we might be missing- maybe it's stuff we keep around in case we need it, and it just clutters up our life, or maybe some habits that we have which, without them, we'd have more time for other life-fulfilling things.
We'll see what happens, however the whole experience has motivated me to not accommodate the small annoyances in life, and to actually take action to eradicate them!
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