Broken

You cry: "Oh No!", as your cherish beloved pot lies shattered into pieces at your feet, splattered in tears, echoing your sobs and muttered moans. "What to do?" you ask. You could try to glue it back together, but it's impossible to hide the cracks and jagged ends of the mends. Just before you are about to throw it away "Ah Ha", a Eureka moment! I think I will try Kintsugi, Which exemplifies the beauty within imperfection, showcasing the breakage lines with gold thread and paint along the cracks and repairs. Then, the pattern made by the golden cracks creates a beautiful natural scene like the branches of a tree or the pattern of a river drawn from nature. The breakage is celebrated, not hidden away to deceive. This is the spirit of 'wabi-sabi' which is the acceptance and exoneration, of transience and imperfection, with the added simplicity of incompleteness and fragility. Not hiding the faults, failings and flaws within patched repairs, but accepting their inevitability in time. So the lesson is that "Broke ain't that bad really!", "Not such a big, sad deal, after all". In the real world transience is accepted as the norm. Perfection is ultimately unattainable and cannot last, as it quells the joys of simplicity and acceptance. Perfection is extinct, never existed in nature! "Things happen", don't they, anytime, anywhere, randomly, with or without cause. So don't let what's broken become a lasting consequential loss. Fix it with Kintsugi!