Nowadays, people are living in a fast-paced world. We tend to drive perfection but not in our eyes but in the eyes of others. We peek into their façade lives through social media and their day-to-day lives. Easily, we assumed all seem to be perfect, but we do not know are the scenes behind their success. The obstacles and personal struggles they are battling. Maybe these people hide it perfectly.
As you observe the influencers, those only who have delivered their inspirational stories of their personal experience are those have the best impact on people and have significant to say. What is best about them is; they openly share it to encourage us, and help us from our hopelessness.
Our lives aren’t only imperfection, but somewhere we just don’t see it, there is something exquisite. A Japanese philosophy, Wabi-Sabi has been use by some of the people to simply be inspired by the beauty of imperfection, or as others would say, the wisdom in imperfection.
Wabi-Sabi or simply translated as the Beauty in Imperfection.
• Wabi is about knowing and realizing the beauty in humble manner. It opens our heart and mind, separating ourselves from the materialism by experiencing philosophical and spiritual abundance.
• Sabi is appreciating everything on how it has passed through time; age, decay, growth, and how it has a beauty on it’s own. It is looking more closely to what we initially see and beyond.
The easiest to compare wabi-sabi in our life is through, Kintsugi, cracked potteries that is filled with gold-dustered lacquer, showcasing the beauty of its age rather than hiding or throwing it. In life, we all have our own cracks that we tend to easily hide or just ignore but when you face it, embrace it, and wear it. You wear it like armor and those cracks won’t hurt you anymore. You would understand why it all happened to you.
We grow smarter every day, we learn from our previous mistakes, we realized things that we thought it is better to void it and start anew. Unfortunately, we do not easily see it. Our presence in that situation doesn’t only mean,we are there for no simple reason but there is this one good reason, and we only have to find out why. That makes you the Wabi-SAbi of your life.
