it’s ok to be…[Blank] Quick Brief

It’s ok to be … [BLANK]

These executions are a part of our Capstone Assessment 2 Quick Briefs.

Our task was to create a poster by filling in the blank area to complete the sentence with whatever we like, then we had the task of creating a visual that supports our sentence.

I took this task on a personal level and reflected on my own personal thoughts and challenges, through my trials and failures in life, so I completed the sentence by adding the word broken.

I’m sure this is something many of us experience during our journey through life, whether its relationships, past pain, death of a loved one, anxiety and/or just simply a broken heart.

As I do feel broken sometimes myself and expressing this does make me a little vulnerable, I wanted to inject some light into being broke, so I can turn a thought or feeling from negativity into something positive. Then I searched for a quote from one of my favourite Sufi poets named Rumi to support my statement, that it was ok to be broken.

I found a quote that reads “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens” I felt this would bring some level of relief and optimism in the times we may feel broken.

It also conveys the idea that even in times of difficulty and weakness there is a lesson of strength that can be achieved, like a hidden blessing that can come to us by enduring the process, in order to open your heart to what may come next.