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Scars, Cracks, and Blemishes
He looked at the face and pointed at that line that ran vertically. “I don’t know,” he said. He then pointed out other areas of imperfection.
I can see them, and I agreed.
We put perfection on a pedestal, and our automatic reaction is to frown upon any imperfection such as scars, cracks, and blemishes.
We create this image of what is beautiful.
Consequently, this leads us to devalue what’s less than that.
We have to remember that we all have scars or imperfections whether or not they’re visible or not.
In the movie Love Everlasting, Bridger has a scar on his chest from a heart transplant. He could easily conceal it with a shirt. Clover, on the other hand, has a scar on her face, which she attempts to conceal with her hair.
Bridger quotes from Pride and Prejudice to Clover to re-enforce the value of scars and how we should not be ashamed of them.
“Our scars make us know that our past…
