In Japan, when a bowl is broken, it’s pieced back together with the cracks being filled with gold creating a beautiful lining.
This is to emphasize the beauty in what was once broken. They believe that when something's suffered damage, it has a history and it makes it more beautiful.
The same goes for you. Everything that you’ve been through, everything that you’re going through, doesn’t make your life uglier even though it may seem that way when you’re going through it.
You are not broken beyond repair. It’s up to you to choose to fill your cracks with gold and make yourself beautiful. You need to pick yourself up and learn from what’s happened and become a better person.
You should wear your scars proudly. Wear them as a badge of honor, as if to say, "look at what I’ve been through". Wearing my scars proudly made me who I am today. My gold filled scars continue to show people you can get through life no matter what it throws at you.
Nobody has had a perfect life and nobody ever will. So don’t be afraid to recognize the broken pieces of yourself. Don’t be ashamed of what’s happened to you.
Every choice, every decision, every consequence has been up to you. You shouldn’t allow your beautiful struggles to be in vain. Everything that has happened to you has happened for a reason.
The more we deny, the more we complain, the more we don’t accept what’s happened to us… the more we start our journey to a slow and meaningless life. The moment we find and accept what’s useful in the thing’s we’ve been through, that’s the moment you start piecing yourself back together with gold.
Don’t be afraid to turn something that could be ugly into something beautiful and inspiring. You’d be surprised how much your story can inspire other people.
Don’t get stuck on how things used to be. Every next level of your life will demand a new you. Sometimes it takes being broken to become that next level version of yourself.
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