The repaired mug is the one people ask about. Being fixed is more interesting than being new.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
A repaired thing carries a story a new thing cannot. The crack shows where it went wrong and the join shows that somebody decided it was worth keeping, and both are more interesting than a surface with no marks. People ask about the mug with gold in the seam. Nobody asks about the one that has never been anywhere.
Stop editing your own history down to the parts that went smoothly. Next time somebody asks how you got here, include one thing that broke and got mended. That is the part they remember.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which part of you got repaired and became more interesting?
MORE IN MEANING & PERSPECTIVE
- Ask your grandparents for their stories while you still can. There’s a whole history book sitting at the dinner table.
- Meaning isn’t hiding somewhere waiting to be found. It’s a thing you build out of what you already have.
- Acting too cool to care is the most boring trend there is. The people who change things care out loud.
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