crash blossom
noun • /ˈkraSH ˌblä-səm/
1. Someone who continues to grow through what should have destroyed them.
2. A person who finds meaning in chaos, accidents, and imperfection.
3. Living proof that brokenness often becomes beauty.
4. Borrowed from the journalism term describing accidental poetry created through ambiguity.
5. The name given to one who retains wonder and softness in spite of life’s greatest challenges.
See also: kintsugi (beauty through repair), metanoia (transformative change), amor fati (love of one’s fate), palingenesis (rebirth), per aspera ad astra (through hardships to the stars), énouement (new understanding of one’s past).
if you found yourself within this definition… you may be a crash blossom too 🤍
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