A speaker recalls their grandmother using a perfect glass vase to teach that girls must be flawless or become worthless. They smash the vase on stage and urge listeners to reject perfectionism, embrace failure, and break free from limiting expectations.
It was in my grandmother's kitchen. We were arranging flowers in a glass vase. I got one, got one of the vases that we were putting flowers. And she looked at me in a very serious way, and she said, do you see the perfect glass vase? A girl is just like it. If it gets cracked for any reason, you can never fix it or glue it back. That's the one we throw in the trash. So the message was that I needed to follow, obey, not have a voice, not make any mistakes, to constantly be perfect. We got the vase, and definitely this is a perfect one. It doesn't have any cracks. And this is what we do with it. Shatter it. We shatter it. We shatter it, whether it is like here as an image or we shatter it in our lives. And this is what I want to encourage people to do, is to keep breaking vases. Life is too short to just live with all of these limitations that are stopping us from believing in ourselves. So many people are being stopped because their fear of failure and their aspiration for being perfect.
