Embracing Imperfection: Our Scars Tell the Story

The Japanese have a form of art known as Kintsugi. This entails a piece of broken pottery being repaired with either gold or silver. The gold or silver is placed in the cracks of the broken pottery and in some cases whole pieces are replaced with one of the two. This technique embraces the imperfection or flaw in an object. Such as how we should embrace our own imperfections, flaws, or scars. Because those scars tell our stories. As with the gold enhancing the pottery our scars enhance us. Our scars show our perseverance, fortitude, and courage. It allows people to know that we have been broken but put back together and are stronger because of it, we’ve had our breakthrough. Yes, it’s the cliche “what doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.” It actually does make us stronger because we learn from it. We learn that we have strength we never knew existed; with this newfound strength we are allowed to grow. A while back, I saw a video on Facebook and it had a man with a prosthetic leg doing tire lifts and a young boy next to him with a prosthetic leg as well lifting a smaller tire. The video spoke volumes to me and to all the others who watched it as it went viral. Not only did this man embrace his own flaw as you would say, he empowered a child to do the same. And they were both stronger because of it — physically and emotionally. I could see the gold in both of them shining brightly. Lately on the internet, whether its Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, p...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Grief and Loss Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Stigma Success & Achievement Trauma acceptance empowered flaws grieving Imperfection Personal Growth Personality Self Love self-compassion Trauma Survivors Source Type: blogs