Putting Life Puzzle Together

Even as a child, I've always been fascinated by puzzles - jig-saw, crosswords, trivia quizzes. Challenged, more like it.  Lately, I've been enjoying Sudoku, and slowly, have started going back to a bit of crossword puzzles.  They are exciting deviation from stress or work overload, a diversion or a cooling effect when life gets murky. Or when health is under repair.

Remember as children when we worked on our jig-saw puzzles? Two or three more pieces left. The anxiety of not being able to complete the perfect fit… The occasional annoyance. The challenge to persist. Patience. Persistence.

Eventually, completion of the whole puzzle. The excitement of seeing the complete picture is always a wonderful feeling, come to think of it, no matter what spectrum of our ageing life we are in. Young or once young.

As adults, a lot of of our challenges seem hard to fit together in the big picture, but if we look at them in the positive way round, and in the correct order, it’s most likely, we'll work out the complete pattern.

A random thought before midnight…