Kintsugi (金継ぎ)

金継ぎ

The Japanese art of kintsugi teaches that broken objects 

are not something to hide but to display with pride.

The kintsugi technique suggests many things. We shouldn’t throw away broken objects. When an object breaks, it doesn’t mean that it is no more useful. Its breakages can become valuable. We should try to repair things because sometimes in doing so we obtain more valuable objects. This is the essence of resilience. Each of us should look for a way to cope with traumatic events in a positive way, learn from negative experiences, take the best from them and convince ourselves that exactly these experiences make each person unique, precious.

In the past few year there have been things that I should have never done, nightmares that I have endured and losses that were unimaginable. I have experienced my soul, mind and heart break into a million little pieces. Within the past several months I have been slowly taking each piece and repairing it to put back in place. There are times when the piece was not completed repaired and fell away again, but I worked hard to put it back where it belonged. 

Putting my pieces back together will be a long and delicate process. There will be setbacks and struggles along they way, but I am stronger than I have ever gave myself credit for. In the end everyone will see my repaired cracks caused by my flaws, but they will see the over all beauty in me because I managed to repair them.