Think about it... A zillion pieces in a jigsaw puzzle! You wanna say "wow!"?? - Go on... yeah really... go on and say it aloud, a zillion times!
How much time do you think an average human will take to assemble a 1000 piece jigsaw? Maybe a week? Give or take one or two days? So in a year, an average of 50 such puzzles? And in a lifetime of 80 years, we say 4000 puzzles? Which then means 4 million pieces put together? Hmmm... so how will one ever find the time to put together a puzzle that has a zillion pieces?
Lets up the ante a little bit over here. How about putting something together while you have no idea, whatsoever, as to how it looks? You have no picture to refer to, no clues, no hints and no 'how-to's. All you have is some vague piece of historical data, part of which is what you yourself build over time. Oh talking about time, yeah, you do have a time limit, its a race against time. And to make it worse, you don't even know how many pieces exist in the puzzle or what portion of the puzzle is yet to be pieced together. And finally, you wont even know when you get it right. But you will certainly know when you get it wrong!
The puzzle I am talking about is what others call “Life”. You have no idea whats in store, whats to come or what it should/would look like from a distance. You wont know how big it is or how small it is, you wont know whether you succeeded or failed in the big picture of things or you wont even know if you would even put it all together when the time expires.
Its that puzzle where the little pieces that you need to stitch together could be the people you come across, the relationships you build., your like/dislikes, your emotions, your dreams, your failures, your success, you habits, your vices, your love, your hatred, the places you visit, the little pieces of wisdom you pick up, your spiritual side or the realization you get when you indulge in introspection. Ans that is only the tip of the iceberg.
When things are smooth and you make progress fitting it all in, you would think life is all good. You think that it all makes sense. Sometimes you don't even have the time to realize that things are good, you fail to notice it. And when the going gets tough, when some pieces of the puzzle look similar and you have no idea which one to pick or you find that a piece goes missing, all hell breaks loose. Things go astray and you want to redo it all! Yeah thats what I am talking about.
The biggest part which people fail to notice is that their puzzles are all actually interlinked. Yours is in someway linked to mine which is in someway is linked to my friends' or sometimes that guy on the street. This is an upside people don't see and often feel beaten when they set out to solve the puzzle on their own. They forget about working together. Yes, they do know this part that their lives are intertwined, but then they fail to look beyond and realize that they cant find a meaning to their life on their own and it has to be a joint effort.
This is profound especially when the piece of the puzzle under discussion, or in simpler terms, the person under discussion happens to be the special someone. That piece then becomes the equivalent of a keystone and the entirety or completeness of the puzzle wholly depends on this one piece and how it relates to all the other zillion pieces. When the two people involved set out to solve the puzzle together, step alongside step, all of a sudden it isn't so mystifying. The same can be said about the pieces that represent the near and dear ones or even the common dreams that people share, however with a slightly lesser intensity.
But at the end of the day, when you do realize that its a puzzle and when you realize its only a matter of time before things fall in place and if you work towards it in the right company, albeit in a trial and error fashion, more often than not, you will succeed.
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