When
you use some articles for a considerable period, it gets wear and tear, which
is subjected to repair, fixation or polishing to regain its old texture. Sometimes, the items are broken, their aesthetic
beauty disappears and even the items become dull to use anymore. If you decide to keep the broken things after
fixation or repairing, the choice is yours, but it is to be done perfectly.
This is a regular sequence in our daily
routine. You may take this incident as simply as an event considering the fact
that the broken item has lost its original beauty. So, it must be destroyed. It
may be true to some extent. But if you
know how to fix the same properly, how to repair with all your artisan skills,
you may salvage the broken thing almost to a new one. For example, a beautiful flower vase of China
clay gets partially broken or damaged and if you fix the same with lacquer dust
or mix the crack portion with powdered gold, the piece may be looking more
beautiful than the original one. In ancient history, there are many legends
related to broken sculptures, which get repaired, and once they are repaired,
they look marvelous. We try our best to
fix the broken things in such a way that no one will be able to identify the
quantum of damage. That means the repair is done with a tremendous expertise,
making everybody dumbfound whether the thing is a really a broken one or not. In fact, it is the other way round. The damaged thing becomes as good as
new. Take the example of the vase, which is repaired with
powdered gold and the broken piece not only gets back its past aesthetic
beauty, but it is also placed in its earlier position displayed beautifully
with a bunch of flowers in the vase, as if nothing has happened. One must
consider the fact that if the expertise in repairing added with some creative
input of say gold lacquering, the broken vase will display a sizzling outlook and its glaring
beauty of radiant gold will exert a dynamic look of adorable beautification. By
making this alteration, the crack of the vase gets transformed, being touched
with the powder of gold; make it even more beautiful. This is the art of
salvaging and making the old one to a prosperous new transformation. There will
be a physical transformation of a new entity from a broken piece. This
transformation is termed from useless to praiseworthy.
In
many parts of Asian countries, namely in China
and Japan,
there is a kind of respect, people show for the art of mending in every sphere
of life whether it is attire, body or simple household items. This philosophy teaches
the simple rules of attachment in the non-attachment, acceptance of change, significant
influence of destiny in life and how fate is a deciding factor in human life. It is imperative to understand that the human
life is living with equanimity in the midst of changing conditions. Life is
full of riddles, undulations, constraints, dilemma and uncertainties, which
break many relationships, cordiality, smooth happenings and rhythms. Unless the
life can cross these hurdles, the congeniality cannot be remained intact. The
philosophical theory attached to the art of mending is also applicable to human
relationship. And this creed makes us ponder on the object or the person. In the case of an object, even the same is
repaired, sometimes it does not lose its visibility of embellishment.
You
may experience trouble, contradictions, conflicts, wounds and breaks, which is
not an unavoidable part of living. It is very common to all of us. We lose our friends, we lose hope, dreams
remain unfulfilled, our health and wealth suffer cracks and many times, we feel
incapable to revitalize and recuperate us.
If a glass breaks into many pieces, the art of fixation also fails to
repair the same and similarly, the broken human relationship many times do not
get mended at any cost. The human beings handle the breaks of
various objects in different ways. We get attached and stuck up in the
brokenness, indulge in self-pity or becoming flabbergasted with rage and never
heal. Simultaneously, we feel or pretend as if, the brokenness has never
happened or we drive the same into oblivion. It is eclipsed by the shadow.
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Despite
our being confined in this shadow, we deny this proposition and try to act
against the same. Many people, of course, are not able to understand this act of ignorance. Once the broken relationship between the two
people crosses all the possibilities of further mingling, you become a bit
wiser and try to concentrate on the theory that time will assuage the hurt
feelings associated with this relationship. But what becomes a predicament that
the feelings of the stale relationship and its scars will be very painful and
constantly remind us of the wounding. We constantly put our all efforts to
amend our mistakes so as to revive the relationship. Most of the time, we get
success, but sometimes we miserably fail as the relationship reaches beyond
irreversible. In the case of objects or goods, the broken pieces cannot be
repaired when it is beyond salvaging and similar is the case with the human
relationship. Though we continue to focus our time, energy and attention for
the same with a hope that the earlier situation will not only revive, but also
become stronger. In this process, we may or may not be able to transcend the
brokenness, but we may land into a new
understanding to alienate the difference to give the life altogether a new
shape. Then only, the scar and the inscription
of the insolent behaviors of the other person or persons inscribed in our mind
due to hurt feelings can be eliminated and the fresh relationship will be again
blossomed like a blooming flower and virtually the relationship looks to be more
friendly than the original one. The art
of salvaging is a crucial technique and if you apply with all your senses and
humility, the ultimate result will be an opening of a new and loving dimension
in life.
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