An elderly Chinese woman carried two pots on a pole across her neck daily to fetch water - one pot was cracked while the other was perfect. For two years, the cracked pot could only deliver half as much water as the perfect pot due to its crack. However, the woman had planted flower seeds along the path on the cracked pot's side, which it watered daily on the return journey, allowing her to pick beautiful flowers to decorate her home. She told the cracked pot that without its flaw, there would be no beauty from the flowers. Each person has their own unique flaws or cracks, but it is these flaws that make life together interesting and rewarding.
10. The old woman smiled, “Did you
notice that there are flowers on
your side of the path, but not on
the other pot’s side?
11. That’s because
I have always
known about
your flaw, so I
planted flower
seeds on your
side of the
path, and every
day while we
walk back, you
water them.”
12. “For two years
I have been
able to pick
these
beautiful
flowers to
decorate the
table.”
13. Without you being
just the way you are,
there would not be
this beauty to grace
the house.”