Ever since she was born, Kiara had a mole on her cheek. This
mole often caught the attention of some of her classmates who made fun of her,
oftentimes humiliating her in front of the entire classroom. Most of the days,
she would come home crying. Over time she started hating school. She would make
excuses to avoid going to school. Then one day, her mom sat down beside her,
and told her something. She opened a drawer and pulled out a scrapbook that
Kiara had crafted during her school’s summer vacation. As she flipped through
her scrapbook’s pages, she told Kiara to pay attention to how its pages were
decorated with nothing but scraps and waste materials. Dried leaves and
flowers, ripped paper pieces, old fabric scraps, buttons, empty refills and
other materials. She said the scrapbook wouldn’t have been as beautiful as it
was with these scraps. She told Kiara that just like these scraps, the mole on
her cheek made her uniquely beautiful. Sometimes, it’s the imperfections of
life that make life beautiful. This is called “Wabi sabi,” which means “flawed
beauty” or “embracing the imperfections of life,” “seeing the beauty in
imperfections.”
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