Love conquers all.

What this trite imagery misses out on is the fact that kintsukuroi requires a lot of work to repair a piece like that.  It takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a great deal of investment.  Sometimes parts of the original are damaged beyond repair, and you have to instead painstakingly create entirely new ones.   It’s still not the same.  Maybe it’s something more beautiful. But it’s not the fact that it broke that makes it beautiful. It’s the work put into it.  It’s the fact that people made the effort to salvage it, because it was worth salvaging, because it was important enough to salvage.      It’s the care that makes the beauty.   An apology can’t always fix what has been broken.  That doesn’t mean it’s not irreparable, sometimes you can go on to rebuild and repair.  But it won’t ever be the same as it was again.   

I really appreciate this addition because I’ve always hated the “more beautiful for having been broken” thing. Being broken sucks and I hate all those tragic romantic sensitivities that try to make it what it’s not. These pieces are beautiful because they’re repaired with effort put in to making them shine.

repair is beautiful. healing is beautiful. scars are beautiful. wounds and pain are not.

Iiii need this dog

Do you think people with LED headlights know that everyone hates them? Like…really hates them in an oddly personal way? Do you think they know?

My way of flirting is looking at the person I’m attracted to and hoping they’re braver than I am.

I laughed too hard at this

I ditched the traditional standards for high school graduates and married the love of my life at 20 and it was the best decision I ever made