I think that's why it's so hard when things are broken--you know they will never be the same again.  It takes a good deal of posi and mess in between to make the things you know will be different work for you.

I knit socks now, but I think I'll hate darning the way I hate hemming.  I guess I will one day have to embrace the darn because I wouldn't want socks it took me a month to make to go to waste.  As a preventive measure, I find myself wondering which shoes chafe the least.