Kintsugi 金継ぎ: The Japanese Art of Repairing Pottery  Using Gold

Amita Raina

People, Relationships, Circumstances.. in general, Life doesn’t always flow as a calm river, there are ripples and sometimes tides. Those that uplift us and sometimes pull us further down.. in simple words.. Life isn’t always perfect! 

But neither are we or our relationships, nor will our circumstances be. What holds us together in any of these tumultuous times is our ATTITUDE, our PERCEPTIONS and our WILL to break through the web.  

Once an energetic group of children wanted to make the strongest house using some  bricks. As they kept laying the bricks next to each other, some way or the other they would get knocked down with even a swish of a scarf. Then one of them came and said, “I know how to stop it from falling, we need to seal the gaps”. Walking to the shelf, the child returned with some gaffa tape (a very handy resource)!!!!!! Jobs were quickly delegated amongst each other to measure, cut and stick the tape closing the gaps with layers of gaffa tape. Once done, the children admired their work and smiling in awe of themselves!

Little things you learn while working with children that we overlook : Children see beyond these imperfections, and are also eager … as well as willing to fix things because of their unstoppable curiosity.  What we may state as imperfections… is addressed as Patterns by young children…But as we grow older we get bogged down with these imperfections and forget to embrace our failures. 

Disappointment, mistakes, imperfections and failures are inevitable part of life and accepting this does not mean undermining oneself because YOU are VALUABLE in Yourself.

• Be Fearless to tackle whatever life throws at you
• Discover ways to do things
• Unravel the wisdom from lessons of your struggles
• Develop compassion, empathy, hope & respect for self
• Find what binds you together with people who care & love you most and enhance the value of that relationship
• Become aware of your abilities to self-heal and courage to move forward

You will be marvelled at your Strength, Resilience and Transformation!

• Create your own gold lacquer..
• Be your own pot of gold finish ..
• Because you only give others what you yourself are made of!!

Watch out for my next blog … could be “WABI-SABI”….. only once I’ve embraced and perfected my Imperfections!!