Valravn Crafts

Our presentation was always a bit punky

The Art of letting go I've always been a tryhard. Not according to rules of others, like climbing corporate ladders or making LinkedIn posts about what I've been thinking while eating my burger at McDonald's, that those employees should study culinary secrets during their work breaks. But always comparing myself to my own standards. Like this should work and it doesn't let's push through it until it does type of thing. Sometimes this approach beared fruits, but sometimes it bears only frustration as we fundamentaly cannot see all things at once, over our own horizons with our ultra focused tunnel vision on one aspect. That is why it's important to let go sometimes and let the flow of things resolve itself. I struggled a lot with a big order from my valued customer. Three refires all wen to shit. I tried pushing through it with my might, mind and skills. But it brought only frustration of wasted time and efforts. As if the universe was against it. I always wanted to make kind of "kintsugi" effect on my ceramics but never could actually done it. With my last refire I let go. I told myself fuck it and stopped fixing "mistakes" on the glaze and just went with whatever the glaze itself wanted to do. Lo and behold, the effects of not trying. Kintsugi effect without my mind, might or skill was the whole time just before me and I just needed to let it flow.