your daily rock : you are not broken.

April 9, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

It is easy to feel like we’re broken.

So many people are willing to tell us we are.

We have pathologized being human.

Being human means imperfection. It means discomfort as well as joy. It means we screw up and make messes sometimes. It means we hurt as well as laugh.

Does that mean we’re broken?

No, that means we’re human.

Beautifully, messily, chaotically, fantastically, fully human.

Those cracks? As Leonard Cohen tells us, “There is a crack in everything.That’s how the light gets in.”

You’re not broken, and you don’t need to be fixed.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.