“Kintsukuroi

Origin: Japanese

Meaning: To repair with gold.

Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of repairing pottery and the process is underpinned by a single belief. Kintsukuroi occurs because the Japanese believe that a thing is more beautiful because it has been broken. And despite being broken, it survived.”

-Gotten from Christiana’s Twitter page, @christiana1987. Follow for more insightful notes.

I’m fascinated by the idea that brokenness often results in expanded capacity if you let it, as though the cracks let in the air and light we need to expel the darkness, ventilate dankness and dispel vulnerability and fear. Adversity reveals character or lack thereof, it does not build character. Brokeness is good, if when we are stitched back together, the places that were once mere flesh are replaced with the refined gold of character, strength and capacity.