Once in a small village, there lived an old potter known for crafting the most beautiful clay pots anyone had ever seen. Every day, he would sit by his spinning wheel, shaping lumps of ordinary clay into art.
One day, a young boy watched him work and asked, “How do you make something so ugly into something so beautiful?”
The potter smiled and said, “The secret is not fighting the clay. I guide it, I shape it, but I also let it be what it wants to become.”
The boy was puzzled. “But what if it resists?”
The potter held up a crooked pot with a crack along its side. “Even the ones that resist the most,” he said, “end up being the most unique. Their imperfections make them special. Just like people.”
The lesson?
Your struggles and flaws aren’t signs of failure — they’re the very things that can make you extraordinary.
