Maybe It's Not the Drawer
I have a dresser drawer in my bedroom that refuses to close. It's not broken. The tracks are fine, and the drawer slides in exactly the way it should. The problem is much simpler than that. It's just too full. Every morning I push it closed, and every morning it pushes right back. A sweater sleeve gets caught, a T-shirt bunches up, or something shifts just enough that the drawer springs open again as if it's trying to tell me something I don't particularly want to hear. The solution is obvious, of course. I could spend fifteen minutes taking everything out, deciding what I actually wear, folding things neatly, and putting back only what belongs there. Instead, I do what I suspect many of us do with far more than dresser drawers. I keep trying to make everything fit. I push a little harder, rearrange a little differently, lean against it with my hip, and convince myself that somehow this time it will finally close. Sometimes it does...at least until tomorrow morning, wh...