“Learn the pain of creating something. And once you’ve learned it, resolve yourself to show lenience to others. In poetry, in literature… in everything.”

-Chihayafuru (season 3, episode 2)

This is another thing I love about art. We become more wholehearted through the striving.

Because to put yourself into something is deeply vulnerable, and vulnerability takes courage, endurance, fortitude, mettle, flexibility, open-mindedness, serendipity, and the willingness to be wrong and make mistakes.

By cultivating this habit within ourselves through a lens of grace and iteration, we soften to others and their path in life. No one has it figured it out, we're all just trying to learn the dance suited to us.