During the earthquake, a beautiful Spanish stone lamp fell, smashing into a high-end Narumi Japanese flowerpot on the dining table. The cactus inside was crushed, its sap spilling out. The Italian marble dining table also had a hole chipped in it.
Seeing the mess filled me with sadness.
I replaced the crushed cactus in a ceramic pot and casually placed it on the balcony, cleaning up the broken stone lamp and bone china pot. These things I once cherished and valued were worthless once broken.
As I discarded them, I thought about why Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain could fetch millions at auctions—because preserving a porcelain pot for hundreds of years without a single crack is incredibly difficult.
Two months later, I was amazed to find that the broken parts of the carelessly discarded cactus had glued back together. Even more miraculously, seven vibrant green cacti had sprouted from its base, even more beautiful than the original, towering cactus that had been shattered—simply exquisite.
I crouched down, carefully observing the vibrant cactus, and couldn't help but marvel at the wonder of life. Humans are not porcelain, but cacti. Porcelain, once broken, is forever shattered, but a cactus can be reborn from its fragments because it is organic, vibrant, and perpetually growing.
We cannot use past failures as an excuse to remain trapped in them. Even the most broken past is gone forever.
Nor can we use past pain as a pretext to bind ourselves to suffering. The focus of life is not in the past, but in the here and now, in this person.
Humans are organic, capable of change; when we recombine ourselves, new creations emerge.
Humans are organic, capable of growth; as long as there is hope, the flame of hope in the universe can be ignited. Even the most dangerous diseases can be cured; once thoughts change, with positive thinking and beliefs, positive choices and a future emerge.
I moved the cactus back to the dining table, placing it on the broken marble surface, and everything became so perfect, full of life.
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