Kintsugi suggests that when things are fragmented, they are altered but not irreversibly damaged. Rather, they are realigned to create something richer. It is entirely normal to seek wholeness. But what if wholeness is not our most valuable state? It is spectacularly freeing to think of our jostling parts as bound together by fortune rather than shame; to see that a frangible self can offer more than an unbroken whole.
