THE BEST OF CRACKED POT

Have you ever read or heard ‘The Tale of The Cracked Pot’ story? If no, you should read this one. That is a simple short story which teaches me two lessons for my life. I cannot wait to share it with you. I will start by telling ‘The Tale of The Cracked Pot’ story first.

One day, there were two pots which always were brought to a stream to be filled a water by a woman. One of pots was a perfect and always delivered a full portion of water while the other pot had a crack in it and just delivered only a half full. The perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments and the cracked pot feel shy and not confident. Two years later, the cracked pot spoke to the woman that he ashamed of himself, because this crack in his side causes water to leak out all the way back to her house. The woman told him that there are flowers on his side of the path, but not on the other pot's side. That is because the woman has always known about his flaw, so she planted flower seeds on his side of the path, and every day while they walk back, he water them, and during 2 years, there have been many flowers that the woman took home. She said that the beauty of her house will not be without the cracked pot.

This story is so simple, but I can take two lessons for my life from this. Firstly, the story tells me that the cracked pot feel shy and not confident because he just delivered a half full of water. He is not perfect. I compare the cracked pot as friend in a real life. I am not perfect as a friend, and sometimes feel the same feelings like the cracked pot, or reverse that I have a friend who feel like that. I have to remember that every human has a flaw like the cracked pot, but from the flaw, I can be another favorable person to others. It likes the cracked pot which hose flowers. Secondly, I look from another side too. This is about the woman. The woman planted flower seeds on the cracked pot side of the path and use it to hose them. In a real life, I have to help my cracked pot friends to find their excess behind their flaws. This is like the woman who help the cracked pot by changing his flaw to be an excess, so the cracked pot can help the flowers grew.

From both lessons, I know that is me as a friend, I have to find my friend’s excess. I have to look my friends from a good side. If I just look my friends from a bad side, I will not find a good friend. Like that story, the cracked pot gave the best of him to the woman. So, the cracked pot friends can be the best for me if I look them from their good side. For me, a good friend is someone who knows my flaw and changes it to my excess. So, I want to be a good friend for my friends. I realize that every human has unique flaws, but we live in the same world. So, I have to appreciate each flaw that every person has because it makes me very interesting and rewarding to live in this world.

“A GOOD FRIEND IS SOMEONE WHO CHANGE A FLAW TO BE AN EXCESS”