For better or worse, it seems that one of my core talents is finding the place where things break, or break down, or fall apart. Laptops, ipods, furniture, and other, more precious things all break down when their time is up.
This destructive testing of the fabric of the world, this using up of the elasticity of things is not so much an act of volition but seems instead to be a direct result of how I abraid against the universe as I make my path through it. I walk until the shoes fall apart around my feet, I push until the flex is gone, never realizing that the thing will at some point cease to function, to be itself.
In hindsight, you can always see where things could have been protected or conserved, where the scratches and dents could have been avoided. But that is the aftermath, and things are never so clear without the mirror of hindsight in which to look at them.
So if anyone has use for a destructive tester, I'm looking to play to my core competencies.
