An elderly Chinese woman carried two pots on a pole across her neck each day to fetch water - one pot was perfect while the other had a crack, causing it to only deliver half as much water. After two years, the cracked pot apologized for its imperfection but the woman revealed she had planted flowers along the cracked pot's side of the path, which it had watered each day, allowing her to decorate her home with beautiful flowers. She explained that it was the cracks in each person that make life rewarding.