Kintsukuroi : Day#20/30

I'm writing Day20-24 posts a bit later than they were supposed to be written, all because of the GoT addiction ;-)
Writing these missing posts feels so much like those school times when we were supposed to write one paragraph and do 10 sums per day for Diwali homework. I usually ended up doing the entire week's (or the fortnight's) homework in a single day (yeah, just the day before school reopened ;) ) :D :D
This seems so much like that!

Came across this photo and it just had to go on the blog :

Here's the wiki page for Kintsukuroi (pronounced as keen-tsoo-koo-roy), the Japanese art of mending objects with gold lacquer.

“	Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated... a kind of physical expression of the spirit of mushin....Mushin is often literally translated as “no mind,” but carries connotations of fully existing within the moment, of non-attachment, of equanimity amid changing conditions. ...The vicissitudes of existence over time, to which all humans are susceptible, could not be clearer than in the breaks, the knocks, and the shattering to which ceramic ware too is subject. This poignancy or aesthetic of existence has been known in Japan as mono no aware, a compassionate sensitivity, or perhaps identification with, [things] outside oneself.	”
~Christy Bartlett, Flickwerk The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics

The thought is so amazing - that things are more beautiful for having been broken...

Extrapolate this to life...Sometimes we stumble, life deals us hard blows - and we don't have much option except to pick ourselves up and carry on...

But we need to appreciate the scars, the bruises and the welts - for each and every wound changes us - for the better.
A mark to remind us we can be much much stronger than we think we are. We can battle on long after we think our strength has left us. Reminders of our ability to stand through and bear it all.

Battered, bruised, broken - but all the more beautiful for it :)