Dear Dad,
It’s been quite a while. 19.11.2019, 8:35 to be exact. I read of a technique last week, called Kintsugi – It’s fascinating. It’s executed in Japan to repair broken pottery with gold. I started to sympathize with the idea of it. I would love to try it out myself one day. “A sustainable pottery”, the internet page said – Sounds great! I don’t think I’m quite ready for it to be honest. I don’t have the type of stable personality to put little pieces of clay together, you know. Still, it amazes me how you can start over and over again. You can even try to put pieces on different spots to create something completely new. It would be nice if everybody would have some kind of reset like this, don’t you think? I wouldn’t want to put it on the same spot of course. It would just be as it used to be. Where would be the purpose? If there is any. I thought it must be easy to destroy pottery like this unintentionally. I mean, in sitcoms it’s always the funny, lightheaded protagonist, who easily destroys the expensive vase of his mom by goofing around. Then, he tries to hide it from her of course, just to get caught in the end. It’s not like he could rewind and undo it, I guess. I think he’s the type of guy who doesn’t care. He loses interest in vases fast and takes them for granted, right? He’s probably even aware of it all - What a terrible character-design. To be fair, it’s easy to take things for granted. He’s probably still an egotistical kid that will develop over time - At least I hope for the viewers. The other day I thought the vase could have been a family heirloom - That’s also why the mother probably was so angry that the vase got broken. She definitely holds on to it, like in one of those dreams everyone already had - You don’t want to quite wake up already, even if it means for just a few seconds, because it’s too beautiful to be real. She probably even said something to the kid like: “It’s very fragile, be really careful and don’t goof around, Brian”. I feel like it’s always a Brian. If you ask me, they could have produced some kind of special episode where they put the pieces of the vase together. I mean, it won’t be perfect obviously - It’s still reality, even if it’s just a stupid show. But if it was so important that she got that angry, they should try to put it together again or make something new out of it, don’t you think? That’s it! They could create a different kind of shape. I mean, it’s probably true that everybody has their own kind of reality how a good and bad shape of a vase has to look like. I just think it’s kind of tough to have an own full shaped reality in an environment like this, right? I guess it’s easier to just believe in another one’s - But what do I know. I definitely can imagine that It takes a lot of energy and emotion to merge the whole thing back together. It must be so difficult - Even more when they are so fragile. It’s not just a vase. It seems like these 1000 - piece puzzles - Easy as a concept, hard to realize. They probably even have to find some lost pieces - What a pain! How can these pieces even be merged if they don’t understand each other? That seems impossible. They don’t seem to speak the same language. Don’t get me wrong. They have similarities obviously, but they are more disconnected than ever. If they look closely, piece after piece, they might find them, or lose it forever.
Anyway, I don’t want to waste your time with this brainless sitcom. A lot has happened. How are you? I hope everything’s fine. After your call last month, I often imagine meeting up with you sometime, somewhere - Would you be down to go for some Kintsugi in some years?
Yours sincerely,
George
P.S. I miss the idea of you.
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