One day the universe collided and Broken Shell met Perfect Heart. They spent many years together surviving many more collisions. Broken Shell would constantly keep cracking and flinging and leaving sharp pieces of calcified shrapnel in her wake. Perfect Heart was always in the line of fire.
After a few years, Perfect Heart looked down and found one of her perfect sides dented and bent. She was mortified. She was not perfect anymore. This crippled and paralyzed her with fear for a long time. Broken Shell still kept pelting away, never relenting, not one iota.
Gradually Perfect Heart became accepting of her bent and dented side. She began to realize that perfect doesn’t exist and to keep trying to control life to make it perfect leads to an empty and exhausting existence.
One day Broken Shell officially renamed Perfect Heart. Her new name was Imperfect Heart. Imperfect heart loved her new name. She loved the peace and balance her imperfect side brought to her perfect side. She decided she will always be an Imperfect Heart. She was grateful to Broken Shell for never relenting.
And that is the story of Broken Shell and Imperfect Heart. Rihanna’s new song Stay has an amazing line in it. It says:
“Funny you’re the broken one but I’m the one who needed savin’…”
Everyone has a perfect side that contains their God-given gifts and talents and everyone has a dented and bent side that contains the things that need work and growth and development. Perfectionists sometimes take years to discover that side. At first it’s disconcerting, but once they find it, they find a peace and balance they never knew existed. Life goes from scratching and striving and building and accumulating and accomplishing to a gentler existence where it’s okay to stop sweeping imperfections under the rug and embrace them as a vehicle for growth and change.
And so, as another day goes by, if you meet a Broken Shell, the first few cuts and dents will hurt and bleed, but don’t run away – they may be the cause of the biggest 360 you’ll ever make, and… I have written.
Here’s to mending broken shells.
My glass is lifted! Thanks for always reading and taking the time to comment. Your opinion means a lot to me. 🙂
This is lovely, Linda… enjoyed it a lot.
Thank you my dear friend. See you tomorrow. 🙂
Beautiful, beautiful post! One more blog I’m extremely glad I’ve found during the UBC. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for reading and commenting!
I love the image you have used, I love the story, thank you.
Thank you. Thanks for reading and commenting, too!
Dented hearts and broken shells… Here, Here! Even tho we are imperfect, it is all perfectly working out in the eyes of heaven. Blessings 🙂
It’s okay not to be okay – it’s opportunity to grow n change! ☺