In The Wind

Life is a puzzle, spend days putting it all together and others days looking for an elusive piece. Grouping by colour, pattern, edges, and it does come together. In the meantime, just reset. The funny thing about puzzles, they can be on a table for a while, but they always get finished. I haven’t done a puzzle in a long time, well a grown up puzzle. I used to do one over the holidays and I really liked doing them. I have no idea why I stopped. I think it had to do with littles around and then lack of space to put it while it was getting completed. I started to lack the joy of completing the task. The reward wasn’t big enough.

I guess with so many years of being busy, I just enjoy days of no pressure, assumed or otherwise. We forget about lots of things that we used to do. Middle life is about finding out who we now are. What really puts pep in our step. Deciding what we haven’t done and what is it that we really want to do. Figuring out what set you back and how to proceed. Most of the time I am pretty content. When I find something that makes me genuinely happy I keep that piece. The challenge in the life puzzle is discarding the unwanted pieces, it can feel like an incomplete puzzle. Life offers us a chance to change the shape of our puzzle. Realizing it wasn’t a dog all along but a fierce dragon is a different type of reward.

Your dragon is your power that you can draw from. Settling for the dog is a disservice to your happiness. Discovery is eye opening and so many times in your life you don’t even see it until you work your way through it. It is the work that gives you the realization of what you wanted all along. Try to surround yourself with things and others that don’t create conflict in your emotions and ultimately your goals. Discovering a goal after you’ve achieved it is a bonus. The goal is in your peripheral vision and sometimes it is something you didn’t even know you wanted. Some days the incomplete puzzle just looms there taunting you to make decisions in the now. Don’t rush, enjoy the sorting, select your pieces at your leisure. Create your masterpiece!