\nthey aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with GOLD.
\nThey believe that when something\u2019s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
\n
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<\/p>\nWhen the Japanese mend broken objects,
\nthey aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with GOLD.
\nThey believe that when something\u2019s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
\n<\/p>\n
I absolutely fell in love with this concept when I discovered it.
\nAs someone who has been broken
\nnot just once
\nbut many, many times
\nI know what it is like to be shattered into so many pieces
\nthat it feels like I will never ever be whole again<\/p>\n
Aggrandize<\/strong> It derives from the Latin grandis<\/em>\u00a0– meaning large Over recent months I have been picking up my broken pieces But I can be whole again Gold that comes in so many forms I can<\/strong> be whole And that When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with GOLD. They believe that when something\u2019s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. I absolutely fell in love with this concept when I discovered it. As someone who has been broken not just once but many, many … Continue reading “Aggrandizing of self”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,19,20,47,4,21,54,49,60,48,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsuch a marvellous word
\nI love how it rolls off my tongue
\nit has such
\na beautiful tone
\na wonderful feel
\nan importance even<\/p>\n
\nIt is an enlargement or increase
\nin power, status, wealth
\nIn this case
\nit is enlarging the worth of a broken object
\nby making it
\neven more beautiful
\nthan before<\/p>\n
\nI have been spending time
\nworking out how to fit all of those shattered fragments back together
\nIt has taken me years to understand
\nthat no matter how hard I try
\nI will never be the whole that I was
\nway back before
\nI was broken<\/p>\n
\neven more than I am now
\nBy piecing together the best parts of me
\nthe healed and healing parts of me
\nand aggrandizing them
\nwith the gold that I am discovering along the way<\/p>\n
\ntrue ‘stay with me forever no matter what shit I put them through’ friends
\nnew members of my tribe
\nnew experiences
\ndeep emotional discoveries
\nand
\nnew love\u00a0💖<\/p>\n
\nI can<\/strong> be a new me
\nAggrandized\u00a0into a far far more beautiful self
\nthan I ever believed possible<\/p>\n
\nto me
\nis
\nPure Gold
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