Life is like a puzzle

Tonight, as boredom reached a height where reading, drawing or watching television just wasn't working I got the bright idea to start a one thousand piece puzzle. It wasn't that bad until after a very long time and I was still separating the pieces then I thought this probably wasn't such a great idea. So there I sit in the floor surrounded by groups of puzzle pieces and that wonderful over thinking/analyzing kicked in once again. Yup, life is like a puzzle, or mine sure seems to be.I try to go and get all the edge pieces and get those put together first. Now in my life when I get that put together that just ain't enough I got to go building more walls up but I digress. So after I get that done, or maybe after or as I'm searching for the edge pieces I separate the other pieces in what part of the puzzle that piece may go. However, you go about starting the puzzle you'll have different pieces all around. Side thought, just like how we all may go about separating and starting a puzzle in different ways but we still end up with a completed puzzle how people start out on their journey may not be the way we'd go about getting to the destination but that doesn't mean that person is wrong. It's like someone wanting to take a trip to California and they tell someone they are driving out there but that person asks why would they do that when they could fly and get there much quicker. Both ways of transportation are fine and will get the person to their destination but what matters is that the person takes the route they want because it makes them more comfortable and it allows them to make the stops they want to because sometimes no matter which way you go there may be unforseen delays so you may as well be on the road in the mode of transportation you want to be in for those possible delays.  Anyway, sorry for that slight delay due to side thought, now back to another thought. After I got the pieces separated I began to try to put the pieces together but that wasn't going so well. It got to the point I was just staring at the pieces and could see somehow they could and would fit to make the picture on the box but no matter what pieces I picked up they wouldn't fit even though at first glance they very much looked like they would fit. Life feels like that sometimes. You see pieces and they look like they'd be a perfect fit but sometimes quickly and sometimes after awhile you realize they just don't fit. Then there are times you get on a roll and the pieces are lining up perfectly only for you to be unable to find that one piece to keep going. You look everywhere and just can't find it so you panic thinking they didn't put that one piece in the bag or you somehow accidentally threw it away. However, that piece is almost always found and usually right where you looked several times just like that puzzle called life. Just like how it can get frustrating when you try to find that lost piece or cannot get the easiest part of the puzzle together no matter how much you try life can get that way too. Sometimes you just want to give up put all of the pieces in the box and forget it and run as far away as possible. Granted, in life sometimes walking away is the best decision but there are times when we want to give up that we don't even realize just how close we really are to that goal. It's like how sometimes you hear that faint little voice that whispers try one more time. Sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. If you try again perhaps you find you actually manage to put a couple pieces together and sometimes you try again and don't get any pieces together but you can still see how eventually, in some way, the pieces will fit together.  So basically, no matter how scattered the pieces are, very few pieces are being put together, or it is taking you longer to get the puzzle put together then you or others think it should just remember eventually the puzzle will be complete and it is worth all the troubles, delays and such to get to see what the final piece looks like. Because unlike the real puzzles there is no box to look at to see if you're putting the piece in the right place or not but that's what makes life better than the puzzles because the picture can be changed and it's not limited to the picture on the box. But neither puzzle will get finished if you don't try to put pieces together and I think I've used the word puzzle enough so this sentence shall conclude another post...