What is a scar?

The dictionary defines scar as a mark left on the skin or within body tissue where a wound, burn, or sore has not healed completely and fibrous connective tissue has developed.

But if you ask me i would say a scar means "i survived"

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Life isn't about avoiding the bruises, i think life is more about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it. Your scars should not be a mark of shame but a mark of strength because every healed white line marks a time you could have giving up but you didn't. Scars do not define where you are going, what they do is they simply show where you have been and what you have gone through. Everyone's got a story, but the different between them and yours is just that yours has pictures to go with it.

The scar shows that you were stronger from what tried to hurt you. Often times we look at our scars like ugly marks, but sometimes lets try to consider them as nice things. Lets see more as symbols that something painful in the past had been healed. Lets learn to move on tho the lessons can be extremely painful and leave the scars on our heart and soul. But the scar themselves are the proof that we have survived.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

Scars are there to tell a story, they are a reminder of times when life tried to break us but failed. They are markings of where the structure of our character was welded. What you did earlier in your life absolutely has no relevance now, what happened in the past shouldn't matter not even once. Take a look at yourself in the mirror, what is important are not the scars, but the determination in your eyes to move ahead and go far.
Scars aren't an imperfection, they're representation of your ability to overcome anything that stands in your way.

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Now here is the trick

When a bowl is broken in japan..it's put back together with the cracks being filled with gold creating a beautiful lining.

This is to emphasize the beauty in what was once broken, they believe when something has suffered damage and has history it makes it more beautiful and the same goes for human beings...

Everything that you've been through and everything that you're going through doesn't make your life uglier although it may seem that way when we're going through it. It's up to us to choose to paint our struggles with gold and make it beautiful. Remember you are not broken beyond repair, you can pick yourself up and learn from what's happened and become a better person from it because of the struggle that you've been through.

You can wear your scars proudly as a badge of honor as if to say "look at what i've been through" it's made me who i am today and i can get through anything life puts in front of me now. Nobody has had a perfect life and nobody ever will, it's only up to us if we choose to paint our broken pieces gold and make it more beautiful.

Don't be ashamed of what happened to you, everything that has happened to you has happened to you for a reason. So the more we deny, the more we complain and don't accept what's happened to us then it doesn't become useful. The moment that we accept and find what's useful in the struggle and the things that we've been through. That's just like us painting the cracks in our broken pieces gold, turning something that could be ugly into something beautiful and inspiring.

When what you have been through is an inspiration for other people then it was all worth it. So don't get stuck on how things used to be, i once heard a quote that said "every next level of your life will demand a new you and sometimes it takes being broken in order to become that new version of yourself".

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So if you're going through hard times i hope this post can help you or somebody that you love...

Thanks for your time...
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