Broken & Beautiful. Fractured & Fused
8x10 glass piece by David Howard @davidhowardglass Instagram
She is broken, but beautiful. Fractured, yet fused back together again. There is pain behind those eyes, a story written in every crack and every scar.
Maybe we are all a little broken.
We’ve all been through hell and back in one way or another. We carry our scars like souvenirs of the things we’ve survived, both physical and emotional. Some scars are visible. Others are hidden beneath the surface.
People often say, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” Maybe sometimes it does. Maybe sometimes it just teaches us how to keep going.
We brush ourselves off. We take another breath. We move forward and tell ourselves, tomorrow is another day.
The scars are still there. We just learn how to live with them. Sometimes we hide them. Sometimes we mask them. And sometimes, if we’re brave enough, we let them become part of our story.
Failure isn’t necessarily falling down. Failure is refusing to get back up.
We aren’t perfect. We all have cracks, flaws, mistakes, and pieces of ourselves we wish we could change. But every mistake can teach us something. Every fracture can become part of the story.
We learn. We grow. We heal. We keep moving forward.
Maybe being broken doesn’t mean we are ruined.
Maybe broken is simply another form of beautiful.