How often our plans get interrupted. How often our goals seem to be derailed. How often life simply gets in the way.
But What If
What if we take the perspective that life is the reconstructing of our plans? What if we see the happenings we don’t personally anticipate, as a partnership rather than an obstacle to be overcome?
Is it then that we can find a way to make peace with all the different pieces of our lives?
Now, I am of course speaking somewhat metaphorically, as I am in no way saying or implying that every experience is joyous or desired or something we choose to participate in.
What I am offering is the idea that our experiences can be pieces. Pieces that can be rearranged, or with time, fit into shapes needed to fill empty spaces.
Fitting the Shape
Picture if you will, each experience you have as a specific shape in your life puzzle.
Now, when it comes to putting together a puzzle, every piece has a place, but this can only be seen through a process of finding the surrounding pieces that fit together. Sometimes pieces sit. They sit until the surrounding shape is created and eventually fit.
Sometimes the pieces are tried over and over. They are picked up, examined, attempted. They don’t fit. They are twisted, they don’t fit. So… they are put back in the pile. They are put in the pile of unfitting pieces until one at some point, that one piece fits.
At some point, that piece, that experience you had, fits to help continue the creation of your picture, your complete puzzle. At some point it fits together.
Making Peace With Pieces
Together does not mean perfect. It does not mean spotless. It does not mean painless or fair or even understood. It means it is a part of you, and with work you can make peace with your pieces no matter the order in which they come together.
