Life is a fascinating puzzle. We don't put in the last piece until we take our last breath. Only then is the puzzle complete. How incredibly disappointing to find a piece or two missing.
When we are little there aren't so many pieces, but each day there are more. Every day life gives us new experiences, thoughts and feelings. Each piece must be examined, gently handled and put in its proper place. When we learn to put a jigsaw puzzle together, we start with 10 or 25 pieces. Then we try a 50 and a 100. Eventually we can manage a 500. And then 1000. As the years pass we get more pieces in our puzzle. The more pieces put together the more we see the picture.
The older we get the harder it is to get the loose pieces from earlier days attached. And if we don't work on it every day the unattached pieces increase. Sometimes the puzzle becomes boring or too difficult and we go for days or months or years without putting in a piece. Occasionally a puzzle even gets put back in the box for a time, but usually when it becomes that difficult there are pieces that have been put together that remain attached. Eventually, it all has to be sorted out and put in the proper place.
Another fascinating aspect of our life puzzle is that the pieces change. Experiences that were ten pieces when we were younger become only one piece later in life. The colors keep changing. Pieces that we thought were brightly colored become muted and grayed. Pieces that we thought were the center of the puzzle become edge pieces.
When we are little there aren't so many pieces, but each day there are more. Every day life gives us new experiences, thoughts and feelings. Each piece must be examined, gently handled and put in its proper place. When we learn to put a jigsaw puzzle together, we start with 10 or 25 pieces. Then we try a 50 and a 100. Eventually we can manage a 500. And then 1000. As the years pass we get more pieces in our puzzle. The more pieces put together the more we see the picture.
The older we get the harder it is to get the loose pieces from earlier days attached. And if we don't work on it every day the unattached pieces increase. Sometimes the puzzle becomes boring or too difficult and we go for days or months or years without putting in a piece. Occasionally a puzzle even gets put back in the box for a time, but usually when it becomes that difficult there are pieces that have been put together that remain attached. Eventually, it all has to be sorted out and put in the proper place.
Another fascinating aspect of our life puzzle is that the pieces change. Experiences that were ten pieces when we were younger become only one piece later in life. The colors keep changing. Pieces that we thought were brightly colored become muted and grayed. Pieces that we thought were the center of the puzzle become edge pieces.
But no piece can be discarded. No matter if it is a color we don't like. No matter if it is a shape that is weird, with odd protuberances on each side. Each piece has a place.
Did you put any pieces in your puzzle today?
2 comments:
are those miranda's hands?
you should post a picture of that mug you got last weekend..i saw gwen has a picture of a favorite mug of hers.
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