So I was going through my old Facebook posts one of
these days, because let’s face it, quarantine boredom has hit us all one way or
another. And I came across this post that I had shared in 2016.
Kinstugi: it is a Japanese term for mending broken
things with gold reminding you that flaws can be beautiful. The post as you can
see above, urges to remember the same when we feel broken. Beautiful, right? I
thought the same and shared at the said time. However, this time, I saw this
post a little differently. This random thought came flying into my mind. And
bear with me, because a lot of random thoughts do come in my mind: what if we
could mend people the same way?
What if all the cracks, all the broken parts of
people were visible? What if you could see the hurt their hearts have been through;
the dried stream of tears their eyes have cried; the crack from the pressure
that their heads have taken? And what if you could fill all those cracks with
gold like in kinstugi? What if you could fill with gold all the voids in the
people’s hearts; the ones that they know and the ones that they do not know?
What if you could fill with gold, the pressure cracks around their heads? What if
that gold could knit your broken pieces back together? Remind them that they
are beautiful despite what they have been through; that whatever their
struggles, whatever their flaws, only make them more unique and stronger
because they shine with the gold that fills them.
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