The beauty in the broken

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There's something beautiful about those things in the world that are broken, both in objects and people. It's effortless and delicate. It's almost magical how something so intrinsically designed and thought-out can just disintegrate right before our eyes.

A mirror, for example, lets us see all that is beautiful and ugly within ourselves and others. The object itself is nothing without us, it does not hold the beauty. As a piece of glass it is relatively irrelevant. When it shatters all the shards of glass disperse amongst the ground, the light reflecting off each individual segment sending a glittered reflection to every surface it greets.

It's much the same idea with people. There's something slightly breathtaking about breaking; it gives you a chance to rebuild yourself. You can learn from the things that sent you shattering and make the changes to ensure that they do not have the same effect on you again.

And just like trying to fix a mirror, you will never be the same again. But that's okay. You see, breaking does not mean defeat and you should never let this thought take over. Just think of the caterpillar, because just when it thought the world was over it became a butterfly.