Let me just admit it – I like puzzles. Jigsaw puzzles. Word puzzles. Even life puzzles.
In my storage space in the garage there has to be over 100 jigsaw puzzles. And that is just the current inventory. Many puzzles have been donated to others over the years. Our dining room table always has a puzzle on it. In fact, I cannot remember a time when it was not covered with puzzle pieces. One of my favorite types of jigsaw puzzles are the collages. This is where there are individual scenes or items connected together in a frame like outline. As one jigsaw puzzle is completed another one is started. Finding where pieces go and fitting them together is a challenge I enjoy.
I think we can look at life like doing a jigsaw puzzle. This may be the most challenging puzzle of all. Sometimes I enjoy the challenges of my life, sometimes not so much. I feel that our lives consist of thousands of puzzle pieces, just waiting for us to put the pieces together and complete one section after another of the picture of our lives.
I always start a puzzle off by finding all the edge pieces and creating a frame. The same could be said for our life puzzle. This life frame is developed early on, during our childhood years. A psychiatrist once told me that a person’s character is formed very early on, before the age of five. That seems unfair to me in a way. If this is true, then the very foundation of a person’s life is being developed long before that person is even aware of themselves. Be that as it may, our early influencers, such as family, teachers, and others in the world have helped to form those edge pieces of our life puzzle.
Once the outer frame is completed other parts of a jigsaw puzzle can start to come together. So it is with our lives as well. We can piece together small sections of our life puzzle one at a time and place those pieces in our frame to view different timeframes, different experiences of our life. What part of your life puzzle are you working on right now?
Certainly the last two years have been a difficult time in most, if not all, of our lives. For some, there may have been illness and loved ones lost due to the pandemic. For others there may have been financial struggles or maybe just the loneliness that came with the lockdowns and CDC guidelines on how to stay healthy. The last two years are a reminder that life is unpredictable. A reminder that we should embrace every opportunity we get to live life to the fullest.
Now that the new year is here we have a chance to complete another part of our life puzzle. Maybe we could connect with others we have not seen for a while. Or maybe do some traveling we have been putting off. Or maybe have a chance to heal severed relationships with people we love but with whom there has been mistakes made and pain felt. Whatever part of your life puzzle you want to work on is your choice. Make your life the best it can be this year!
Change, Grow, Evolve
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