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An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, to collect water from the stream in, each hung on the end of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One pot was perfect the other had a crack in it. At the end of the long walk home from the stream, the cracked pot was always half full.
After two years the cracked pot admitted to the woman that it felt ashamed that it could only do half, of what it was made to do. But the woman asked the pot, if It had noticed the beautiful flowers growing on its side of the path? She admitted that because she had always known about the flaw in the cracked pot, she had planted seeds on that side of the path, knowing that each day the cracked pot would water them. That without the pot being just the way it was she wouldn’t have flowers for her table.
Each of us has our own unique flaw, that makes our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. So take each person for what they are and look for the good in them. Being who we are, is just as important, as what we can do
So fellow cracked pots, remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path.
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