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The cracked pot felt ashamed that due to a crack in its side, it could only deliver half as much water as the perfect pot. For two years it apologized to the water bearer for its imperfection. However, the water bearer had used the cracked pot to water flowers along the path, which he picked to decorate his master's house. The water bearer explained that without the cracked pot's flaw, there would be no beautiful flowers. Each person has unique flaws, but it is those flaws that make life together interesting.

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The cracked pot felt ashamed that due to a crack in its side, it could only deliver half as much water as the perfect pot. For two years it apologized to the water bearer for its imperfection. However, the water bearer had used the cracked pot to water flowers along the path, which he picked to decorate his master's house. The water bearer explained that without the cracked pot's flaw, there would be no beautiful flowers. Each person has unique flaws, but it is those flaws that make life together interesting.

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THE CRACKED POT

Once upon a time there was a water-bearer in India


who had two large pots, each hung on each end of a
pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots
had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect
and always delivered a full portion of water at the end
of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house,
the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer
delivering only one and a half pot full of water in his
master’s house.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its


accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was
made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own
imperfection, and miserable that it was able to
accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water-bearer one day by
the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.” “Why?” asked the bearer.

“What are you ashamed of ?”

“I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my
side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master’s house. Because of my flaws, you have
to do all of this work and you don’t get full value from your efforts, the pot said. The water-bearer
felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, “As we return to the master’s
house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path.”

Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful
wild flowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some.

But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again it
apologized to the bearer for its failure.

The bearer said to the pot, “Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path,
but not on the other pot’s side?

That’s because have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower
seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you’ve watered
them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master’s table.
Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house.”

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that
make our lives together so very interesting and warding. You’ve just got to take each
person for what they are and look for the good in them.

100 Moral Stories 26 www.islamicoccasions.com

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