Puzzles

Life is a puzzle. Four corner foundation pieces give us a start in the messy jumble of pieces that we live in. They are an anchor, a reassurance. We must learn which pieces we need to connect to for our own stability and which pieces to avoid that don’t fit comfortably into our lives. Just because we don’t connect with certain pieces in our life doesn’t mean we discard them. We use them down the road to build our life story, to learn, to love, accept, and grow. Without them our story would be incomplete.  We learn to love each piece as an individual as we are all cut in different shapes, sizes, and colors. We learn that our puzzle would be so much more challenging if every piece was the same. Puzzles take time, patience, and hard work much like everything we do in our own lives. Life can be challenging but if you keep at it the ending results can be rewarding. As humans we are constantly searching for our place in life much like every individual puzzle piece is. It’s important to remember we all have a special place in which we belong. Some people find it right away. Some people don’t. Just because you can’t figure it out right away doesn’t mean it’s not sitting there waiting for you when the time is right. Throughout a puzzles life its pieces get lost, edges get worn, and colors begin to fade. To me this shows a life well lived and well loved, for a puzzle in perfect condition it typically rarely used and never loved. In my life I hope I can connect with those I need to connect to, bring new colors into the world of others, and be building block in creating this masterpiece we all call life. And if sixty years down the road I am a little torn around the edges, a few pieces of me are missing, and my colors have begun to fade I can rest in the fact that I have lived a life worth living.