The Puzzle (continued)
8/10/01
Missing pieces can cause great confusion not only in our puzzle, but in our lives, and our concentration. Of course, the size, or number, of the misplaced pieces play a role as does the odds of retrieval. Is it a temporary loss or something more permanent? Pieces sucked into a vacuum cleaner can work havoc on our final picture. Chances are that the vacuum will digest our piece or pieces as its evening meal. While our homes may be cleaner, our feelings of success and achievement may plummet. Many of us already feel as if we are missing something in our lives. Having a solitary hole in our puzzle simply hammers this idea home.
Upon occasion, people have been known to “steal” a piece of the puzzle in order to lay claim to the placing of the final piece. While this is generally done in good, clean fun, it can also be very disruptive in the time spent searching for the missing piece. The piece is deemed lost until the visitor returns. And, unknowingly, we might tear the picture apart since the vacant eye continuously stares at us and reminds us of our failure.
The final challenge comes when we find pieces that don’t seem to fit anywhere. Admittedly, puzzles normally do not contain extra pieces. There are times, though, when we hold onto a piece of greenery that we know fits on the left side of the picture only to later find out it fits on the right side of the totality. These are the pieces that can be the most frustrating and often the most challenging. When we find such an anomaly in our lives, we tend to fit the anomaly into nice neat boxes. Our pre-defined boxes aren’t always the solution. Just for the sake of simplicity, let’s say that we have compartmentalized our entire existence into these pretty round hat boxes. Along comes this square anomaly. Unless we have a round box much larger than our square, the anomaly will be difficult to compartmentalize. Now we have all these pretty round boxes with one square “thing” which is out of place.
Flexibility and moderation in all things seems to be the rule. We must not be fooled into thinking that our mysterious puzzle piece will fit only in one section of the puzzle. Just as we should be prepared for round, square, oval, and rectangular anomalies in our lives. If we concentrate on only one part of our puzzle, we may miss some of the fun of connecting odd pieces every now and again. The same is true in life. If we fret too much over money, we may miss some of the simple enjoyments that life has to offer.
Life is a continuous, uncompleted puzzle. Often, is in many puzzles within a puzzle. While we must always strive to complete our puzzle and keep the bigger picture in mind, we must not foresake the enjoyment of the puzzle itself.
Missing pieces can cause great confusion not only in our puzzle, but in our lives, and our concentration. Of course, the size, or number, of the misplaced pieces play a role as does the odds of retrieval. Is it a temporary loss or something more permanent? Pieces sucked into a vacuum cleaner can work havoc on our final picture. Chances are that the vacuum will digest our piece or pieces as its evening meal. While our homes may be cleaner, our feelings of success and achievement may plummet. Many of us already feel as if we are missing something in our lives. Having a solitary hole in our puzzle simply hammers this idea home.
Upon occasion, people have been known to “steal” a piece of the puzzle in order to lay claim to the placing of the final piece. While this is generally done in good, clean fun, it can also be very disruptive in the time spent searching for the missing piece. The piece is deemed lost until the visitor returns. And, unknowingly, we might tear the picture apart since the vacant eye continuously stares at us and reminds us of our failure.
The final challenge comes when we find pieces that don’t seem to fit anywhere. Admittedly, puzzles normally do not contain extra pieces. There are times, though, when we hold onto a piece of greenery that we know fits on the left side of the picture only to later find out it fits on the right side of the totality. These are the pieces that can be the most frustrating and often the most challenging. When we find such an anomaly in our lives, we tend to fit the anomaly into nice neat boxes. Our pre-defined boxes aren’t always the solution. Just for the sake of simplicity, let’s say that we have compartmentalized our entire existence into these pretty round hat boxes. Along comes this square anomaly. Unless we have a round box much larger than our square, the anomaly will be difficult to compartmentalize. Now we have all these pretty round boxes with one square “thing” which is out of place.
Flexibility and moderation in all things seems to be the rule. We must not be fooled into thinking that our mysterious puzzle piece will fit only in one section of the puzzle. Just as we should be prepared for round, square, oval, and rectangular anomalies in our lives. If we concentrate on only one part of our puzzle, we may miss some of the fun of connecting odd pieces every now and again. The same is true in life. If we fret too much over money, we may miss some of the simple enjoyments that life has to offer.
Life is a continuous, uncompleted puzzle. Often, is in many puzzles within a puzzle. While we must always strive to complete our puzzle and keep the bigger picture in mind, we must not foresake the enjoyment of the puzzle itself.
posted by Vickie at 8:56 PM
2 Comments:
Have I ever told you how much I hate jigsaw puzzles? lol, but you're right, it's all puzzles within puzzles within puzzles, and the trick is to fit as many together without forcing as possible, and hope that there aren't any empty spaces - or at least that the empty spaces aren't the important parts...
No, you never mentioned it.
I rather like them. I think the analogy is a great one, though. I think I even have a poem somewhere that rather goes with this.
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