Life is Like a Jigsaw Puzzle…

You know that feeling of overwhelm that you get when you get a new jigsaw puzzle, one with lots of pieces, and you open it up and dump all the pieces out?  I’m realizing that in this current moment, my life feels rather like that.  Actually that’s not entirely true.  My life feels more like that moment where you’ve got the puzzle about 1/3 done.  You know where you’re headed, you’ve got a clear vision of what the finished product is going to look like.  You’re reasonably certain that you’ve got all the pieces (although you’re open to the possibility that one or two may have in fact fallen off the coffee table and are on the floor), but you’re just grappling with how these pieces go together.  That’s what my life feels like in the current moment.  And I gotta tell ya’, it’s got me vascilating all over the place — one moment I’m frustrated, one moment I’m flowing, next moment I”m stuck.

What I’m allowing myself to fall into is that place of determination and knowing.  That mental state where I know I’m headed in the right direction, I know I’m making progress, I know I’ll get there eventually — the puzzle will be completed perfectly — and I may need to take a break or two or ten along the way.  I may need to invite people to join me in the proje ct.  Some may jump right in, some may turn away, some may stay for a bit and then leave — and the puzzle WILL get done.

What I also know for absolute certain is that sometimes, it really does serve me to take a step back and look at the puzzle AND the pieces from a different angle, with a differerent lens.  And sometimes it’s good to work on a different part of the puzzle altogether, knowing that all the sections I work on will come together to create the complete picture eventually.

Yes, i’ts a jigsaw puzzle … and it’s a good thing.  Onward and upward.