Imagine putting on a series for some entertainment while cleaning your home and hearing the most beautiful and eloquent words you have ever heard being spoken from your ear buds that it stops you in your tracks?! This is what happened while watching Thank You, Next, a Netflix series that seems to have a great following, because of the main character Leyla.
Leyla seems to have gotten herself into a bit of a pickle and gets a kintsugi bowl as a gift, which send her into the most introspective monologue that uses kintsugi as a metaphor for healing and resilience.
Leyla says:
“Kintsugi… seeks to elevate the beauty and the functionality of a broken object. According to this philosophy, a break is not a loss but a new form of existence. Certain events in human life can leave deep scars that may be deemed impossible to repair. However overcoming them and fixing the damage with more valuable and stronger bonds is also part of life. Rather than discarding the broken parts of an object, they’re intentionally accentuated to make them a part of its history. This is a struggle against fragmentation. It doesn’t embrace nothingness, instead it highlights the progress from when it was first broken. Vulnerability is neither denied nor suppressed, and no aspect of life is considered a flaw. It is so valuable despite not reaching greatness.”
Wow! Just wow!
If we can apply the philosophy of kintsugi to our our lives and relationships—especially intimate ones—we will be able to see the beauty in our experiences. We may be fragmented, but not beyond repair. With the right kind of love—self, familial, friendship and intimate—and healing put us back together, so that we may recognize the beauty in every phase and stage of who we are.
(Photo from Stock Photos from Lia_t/Shutterstock)
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