Living Pearl
In Hawaii's night markets, some stalls sell living mussels.
On the stalls, there is a wooden bucket filled with water, and inside are living mussels, each selling for seven dollars. Tourists can choose the mussels themselves.
Once the mussel is selected, the vendor opens it up and extracts a pearl on the spot, just like opening a prize. If someone is lucky enough to get a large pearl, people around will applaud enthusiastically.
The vendor explains that these mussels were all cultivated in the sea at the same time, yet some grow very large, some remain small, some are perfectly round, and some are misshapen. Even the mussel farmers don't know the reason behind this.
Since extracting living mussels is quite cruel, I quickly left. It made me think about how the grit inside the mussel can grow into different kinds of pearls. Life is the same way; we all face injuries and setbacks, but some people manage to produce the most beautiful and largest pearls.
We should be like mussels, developing the ability to heal our wounds, and transforming the traumas of life into beautiful pearls.
The pains of life are living pearls; if we can overcome them, they will shine with brilliant lustre. If we cannot transform them, they will hasten our demise.
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