The other day, I received a message from a lovely man. He was telling me how much he enjoyed my blog. Well, I thought to myself, wasn't that just peachy keen, and I was really happy about it, and then just like that, he ruined it. Ain't that just like a man? The next thing he said to me was, "I am almost 98.5% sure that you wrote all of it, and it was not AI."
I chuckled to myself, and I'll tell you exactly what I told him. I said, " Listen, buddy", and that's exactly what I said, buddy. I said, " Listen, buddy, AI wishes that it had 1/10 of my depth and emotional capacity. When I write, it's not computer generated mumbo jumbo it's straight from my heart."
I then said, " Don't get me wrong, if I ever want a video of me and my cat slow dancing to ' Endless Love ' while a clown dangles upside down from a chandelier in my living room, the first place I'm going to is an AI app. Other than that, I will always go with my natural ability, let's call it NA instead of AI, because that's how I roll." I did not hear back from him. Gee, I wonder why, oh well, next.
I want to ask you all a question: Have there ever been times in your life when you've felt truly broken? I can think of three times where I really felt like that, like I didn't know which way to go, what to do, or how I was gonna get through it. I'm pretty sure we've all been there. The experiences are different. The outcomes are different, but I think it's all part of our life experience.
There is an old Japanese tradition called Kintsugi. The good thing is that I'm typing this instead of pronouncing it, because I know I would mangle it. So, the foundation of Kintsugi is to repair a broken piece of pottery by highlighting the cracks with lacquer, then filling them with gold, silver, or platinum powder. Instead of hiding the damage, this method treats the repair as part of the item's history, therefore making the item more valuable than when it was new. There are several steps to this process.
An artisan will carefully gather the pieces of the broken object. taking there time and making sure that all the pieces are accounted for.
Once the pieces are collected and organized, they are carefully laid out and reassembled with a lacquer that hardens over time.
Any missing spots are then filled in with more lacquer and filler.
Once the lacquer has hardened, the seams are then painted with gold, silver, or platinum powder.
The final step is polishing the item to reveal its new beauty.
The same is true of our experience. Many times I've had to pick up the pieces of my life. I have fumbled and faltered often trying to put them back together. Not everything always fits into place like we think it should. But when everything is said and done the damage to us is part of our history and makes us more valuable than we were before.., I know I shine 😉.
Almost makes me glad for the experiences I've had ...♥️