Repair your broken pieces with gold, darling, so that you can shine brightly in your healing and resilience. Your cracks and flaws are part of your history, part of who you are; they may be painful and difficult to look at sometimes, but they can also be marks of great strength and change. When life shatters you, you have the ability to heal, to put the pieces back together in a new way, and to push forward. Your broken pieces don’t have to be swept up or thrown away. You are a work of art. Beautiful. Unique. Complicated.
In your golden imperfections, you are perfect.
Author’s Note: Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer made of gold, silver, or other precious metals. I highly encourage looking up both the art and the philosophy it represents. Both are quite beautiful.
Savannah Watson 
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