9.12.2016 Today I watched a very informative video about a woman who found a beauty in imperfection after a dramatic loss. The speaker is a painter who specialises in painting people. She says that some years ago there was an event that changed her perception of beauty forever. The speaker hopes that her experience may help us. She says that there were eight children in her family. In order to give us a sense what it is like, she makes a joke by saying that when they were on vacation, they used a bus in order to travel. However, she emphasises that they had a regular car, too. Her mother used it in order to take her daughter to every available art class. The speaker says that the main thing she learned living in a big family is not to do anything stupid with your siblings around. Nevertheless, painting was her own world where she was isolated and controlled only by beauty. By the age of 14, the speaker realised that she wanted to be an artist. She found her way which could bring her success and recognition. However, then her life dramatically changed. In 2011, the speaker's mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. The speaker tried to help her but, unfortunately, her mother passed away having left a deep wound in the speaker's heart. After a long time of recovering, she went back to her studio and found out that her way of painting had completely changed - her pictures became more vague and imperfect. The most interesting thing is that the speaker got passionate about imperfection . She left the world of perfection with its strict rules and went to the world of imperfection filled up with freedom. Finally, the speaker says that there will be lots of losses in our lives. We just should let this be and connect our thoughts and feelings to what or who is real, awake and alive.