Of Staples, Cube and Life

Too much TIKTOK and I saw this video making a cube using blocks of staples. I remember I have a lot of staples lying inside my drawer. So, I decided to try it. I was excited until I tried it. I have the long ones so I have to cut them to a short cube.

Try watching the video below :

It was hard. Long staples are not advisable, for it will not be sturdy. I broke them into pieces. I made the same smaller blocks of similar lengths and I made one after carefully composing it with my so hard hands. After a couple of tries I made one cube but it was shaky. The one I saw on the video was sturdy when you held it. It is becoming frustrating.

So, I broke them again and now with two different lengths. The other block is two staples shorter. The staple is brittle. So you have to be really delicate in handling them. Plus, you have to delicately shorten the staple block to match the two lengths. It is frustrating (hahaha).

I managed to build one after 1 and half hours. I was holding them and making the cube tighter, and it crushed. HAHAHA.. That is life.

Usually in life when we want achieve something, we tend to make action on it immediately, not knowing how to do it. I just realized then that even on small tasks we should always learn and study the steps we must take before jumping in. If we make it this way, failures will be lessen. There will always be bumps along the way but if we really want to achieve this, we must learn and not commit the same mistakes.

Then comes the time when you achieve your goal. Always do not be complacent that everything will be ok and smoothly running, or it may crush down to nothing just like what happened to me here. Then here is the time you will on a crossroad and decide if you will do it again or not. The real test begins.

And there will be times in life, you would want something easier to finish your task. A hack as we called it and then so I saw this video wherein they use glue to stick the staple blocks but I realized it is now fun and I saw on the earlier video that it could be made without them. So, I disregarded it. And it is not the main goal here actually. Hacks are good as long as it does not taint the purity of your process, or you did not step on anyone's shoes.

As for me on this one, I definitely want to try again and make a more sturdy staple cube, but they are all now too short to be use in this project (hahaha). And I watch again the video and they have smaller type of staple cubes. So, will buy those one and eventually try again.

I think it is cool to have one in my desk.

Just sharing hihihi.