Saturday, June 23, 2012

Missing Pieces

Last night my granddaughter and I were putting a puzzle together. My daughter came in and asked, "Did you put puzzles together when you were growing up?"  She said she asked that with some hesitancy knowing she may not like the answer because my childhood stories are not always happy ones to her. 

I told her we did.  We would buy them at garage sales. Sometimes there would be a piece missing, so we would cut a piece of cardboard from a cereal box and color in the missing piece as best as we could to match the other pieces.  She laughed and said, "I knew I should not have asked."

But the fun part about putting together a jigsaw puzzle is not all about the finished product, although that is a big part of the reward.  When putting together a jigsaw puzzle you talk and share thoughts and memories, or even if you are alone, you feel like you are working toward a goal and accomplishing something.

If you work really hard to achieve your goals but don’t enjoy the journey, you are not enjoying life.  Sometimes our goals or dreams do not turn out exactly like we had pictured on our box, but we just make the best of it, because we can't change it now.  Move forward.  Make a new goal.  Enjoy the puzzle of life. In the end, your greatest joy will be the memories you made along the journey.

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