Kintsugi — Being Broken
I’ve always been rather fascinated with Japanese traditions and culture. There’s just something about Japanese attention to detail and craftsmanship that I appreciate.
For example, I just learned about an art form called Kintsugi, a Japanese way of repairing pottery and ceramics with a lacquer made of Urushi sap and sealing with metallic dust like gold and silver. The repair adds meaning and value to the object both figuratively and literally.
What this can teach you is that just because something was broken doesn’t mean that it is invaluable.
Each rejected job offer or any other hardship could represent a crack in your life, but we must do our best to realize that this is simply an event of your life that can be repaired and embraced as part of your journey.
From The Modern Met:
“As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.”