When a bowl is broken in japan it's put 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 has suffered damage and has a
history it makes it more beautiful and the same goes for a human being. Everything
that you've been through, everything that you're going through doesn't make your
life uglier, although it may seem that way when we are going through it, it's up to
us to choose to paint our struggles with gold and make it beautiful, you are not
broken beyond repair, you can pick yourself up and learn from what's happened
and become a better person from it because of the struggle that you've been
through, you can wear your scar proudly as a badge of honor as to say "look at what
I've been through, it made me who I am today, and I can get through anything life
puts in front of me now." Nobody has had a perfect life, and nobody ever will, it's
only up to us if we choose to paint our broken pieces gold and make it beautiful.
Don't be ashamed of what's happened to you, everything that has happened to you
has happened to you for a reason, so the more we deny, the more we complain and
don't accept what's happened to us, then it doesn't become useful, the moment
that we accept and find what's useful in the struggle, things that we've been
through, that's just like us painting the cracks in our broken pieces gold, turning
something that could be ugly into something beautiful and inspiring. When what
you have been through is inspiration for other people, then it was all worth it so
don't get stuck on how things used to be, I once heard a quote say; "every next level
of your life will demand a new you" and sometimes it takes being broken in order
to become that new version of yourself.
-SEAN BURANAHIRAN