Cracked
When whole, the teapot provides a warm drink that brings joy, comfort, and relaxation through the drink it pours out. When the teapot is not cared for and becomes broken, the performance and provisions change. Gluing the teapot back together is possible, but it no longer is the same nor will it ever be the same.
Even though you try to fix it, it still has small pieces missing between cracks. You know those small chipped off pieces that cannot be put back during the gluing process? Those pieces prove to be important. Without those pieces, the teapot is not whole anymore. That teapot is no longer the same.
The teapot wants to be full in order to fulfill its purpose. You want to keep filling it with expectations for it to be the same, but it isn't. What you pour in most likely will leak through small openings the glue could not strengthen. Therefore, what the teapot pours out may not have the same effect. It may not give you that same satisfaction you had once when it was whole. Even after carelessly breaking it, you expect it to GIVE you what YOU desire.
While you are angry and curse or blame the teapot, you have to think about who broke it. You broke it. You are angry because you want it to be the same. You want it to perform the same, give the same contents. It won't. We take care of things so they don't get broken. We value the things that bring us joy in order to appreciate them for years to come. The once fragile teapot is now more fragile than ever.
Despite its brokenness, you can learn to look at it through the eyes that once saw it in its original beauty. You can learn to accept its changes as part of your responsibility for breaking it. And you can learn from each crack to be gentle so as not to break it beyond repair. While your cracked teapot may not pour out the same drink you once loved, you can learn to value its new contents. That drink may have a different taste, but maybe you need to change the ingredients you put into it.
Even though you try to fix it, it still has small pieces missing between cracks. You know those small chipped off pieces that cannot be put back during the gluing process? Those pieces prove to be important. Without those pieces, the teapot is not whole anymore. That teapot is no longer the same.
The teapot wants to be full in order to fulfill its purpose. You want to keep filling it with expectations for it to be the same, but it isn't. What you pour in most likely will leak through small openings the glue could not strengthen. Therefore, what the teapot pours out may not have the same effect. It may not give you that same satisfaction you had once when it was whole. Even after carelessly breaking it, you expect it to GIVE you what YOU desire.
While you are angry and curse or blame the teapot, you have to think about who broke it. You broke it. You are angry because you want it to be the same. You want it to perform the same, give the same contents. It won't. We take care of things so they don't get broken. We value the things that bring us joy in order to appreciate them for years to come. The once fragile teapot is now more fragile than ever.
Despite its brokenness, you can learn to look at it through the eyes that once saw it in its original beauty. You can learn to accept its changes as part of your responsibility for breaking it. And you can learn from each crack to be gentle so as not to break it beyond repair. While your cracked teapot may not pour out the same drink you once loved, you can learn to value its new contents. That drink may have a different taste, but maybe you need to change the ingredients you put into it.
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