3. Hardship

now many things in the world are easy to decide like brushing your teeth in the morning. For everything else well that’s the hard stuff. So I was walking around and low and behold I stumble across a diamond now I know what your thinking that must be pretty rare, well your right, so when that happens one tries to take advantage of the situation. I tried to keep this diamond with me enjoying the small nuances and then I see it… a crack, damn it. now its not a big crack but it is there. The hardship is that usually when you see the crack in your diamond its new enough that no matter how much you try to just appreciate the greatness of what you have found you come back to that damn crack, that small imperfection that pulls your eyes away from what you have. Its hard sometimes , some imperfections are big enough that once found you know that you could never get past it and you try so hard but no matter how much effort is put forth it will always be there. Then there is that other crack the one that starts just like any other but you leave it and somehow you fine things deep with in this rock you have found that start to make you want to explore this mystery of this flawed rock that is so impeccably amazing. Soon the memory of the crack is there and if you look you could find it but it has become so meaningless that you simply ignore it. Lastly there is, what I call the great imperfection, it is just like the above it is found and pondered but instead of ignoring it, over time you notice that this small imperfection that others may see as atrocious, to you simply helps scatter the light of beauty that shines constantly from this simple stone that most may just see as a stone and yet you see it every day as what it is…

Sometimes the most valuable diamond is tossed aside for something as worthless as a perfect diamond.