Through pain, comes beauty. I was inspired by a special tea planting treatment tea leaves are allowed to be bitten by bugs, making a chemical reaction to occur, which produces a special sweetness in the tea leaves; meanwhile the tea leaves are being transformed. Similarly, a human suffers from displacement, which causes an internal changing in one’s body that allows a person to be transformed and reborn. That internal changing is formed by overcoming the difficulties such as adapting to a new environment, learning a different language, mastering new techniques and experiencing new lifestyles. As we have gone through challenges toward mastery, the experiences database will be stored as instincts that will guide us to discover the true voice deep down our mind; to clarify a way for our true destination, at that moment, we are reborn. Like the bitten tea leaf, we can be transformed.
