There's a beautiful Japanese art form, called "Kintsukuroi" -- the art of mending broken pottery with gold ... the Japanese believe that something, once broken and mended, becomes more beautiful for having been broken .... this is part of a greater philosophy -- "Kinsugi" -- the art of embracing damage ...
Once broken, we can never go back to what we were before ... but we can ... and do ... go forward, to be mended with gold ... and we become more beautiful ... and more useful ... than before ...
We must embrace our damage in order to be mended and become whole again ...