By Ava Nicols, Editor-in-Chief
I love puzzles. Ever since I was little, my mom, sister and I have done them together in our living room–especially on days that it rains.
Whether we were putting the alphabet in order using big foam puzzle pieces, creating a map of the United States, reconstructing a painting or the city of New York, we did them together. One thing that happened almost every time is that we’d lose a piece(s) and get sidetracked while looking for it.
In thinking about the next season of life for myself as I go onto college in the near future, I find it interesting how similar life is to building a puzzle. Bear with me because I know for many doing puzzles is not a first-pick hobby but I can assure you it’s actually quite a worthwhile activity and this metaphor applies to everyone.
So if the complete puzzle represents our entire life, all the little pieces are the events and accomplishments that make it mean something. All the pieces, or events, are jumbled up in the box and you never know which one you’ll pull out first. Similar to how we have to try different things out until they fit just right and sometimes right when we think we’ve got it you have to start completely over.
Doesn’t this sound a lot like getting through life? We are equipped with things like interests and skills and human connections that have no affiliation with each other, other than the fact that they all combine to make up the whole picture; our whole picture. My favorite part is that everyone’s picture is different and a forever in-progress project.
Puzzles are annoying too. You can’t find a piece, one doesn’t fit right, you have a whole corner missing and unsure where to start, there are too many pieces– I digress. The same goes for challenges and periods in our lives too though I’m realizing. Doing a puzzle is best done with patience and I think that is something really important to remember during uncertain times in our lives like the transition into college. I am excited to see mine and all of our pictures continue to come together and hope that we don’t get discouraged when a piece is not right, and rather that we throw it back into the box and try another one.
Until April,
Xoxo,
Ava
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