You are more beautiful for having been broken.

Healing is not the pursuit of perfection. Wholeness of our being does not mean the erasure of our scars. The Japanese philosophy Wabi-sabi which espouses the embrace and celebration of imperfection and impermanence and Kintsugi, the practice of mending broken pottery with gold to accentuate the cracks rather than conceal them, posit that beauty is found in the fleeting and the imperfect. Our uniqueness, our authentic self, is revealed by the cicatrices collected on our journey through life. Your beauty is not the absence of scars. The wounds we suffer and heal speak to our strength. You are one-of-a-kind, trying to be anything else is torment.