I am super bad at putting puzzles together. Those 300 or 10,000 piece puzzles that are actually interesting, and in the end turn out to be pretty cool. I've narrowed it down to three reasons why I fail at these kinds of puzzles. 1) I immediately feel overwhelmed at the sight of all those pieces. There could be 300 pieces in that puzzle but to me it looks like a million. Feeling overwhelmed, I start to pick out the edges and start trying to fit the pieces together. Which brings me to reason number 2) I lack the patience to go through all these pieces just to find one fit in one hour. Its frustrating. 3) I feel blind. Every one working on the puzzle seems to be able to find a fit for each piece they pick up, meanwhile I have a pile of pieces that don't fit, and have made no contribution to the big picture at all. I lose sight of what the big picture will look like and then lose hope that it will ever turn out to look that way.
My very best friend, bless her heart, jokes with me about how every time we meet to talk I have a different story. From the outside it looks like my life is really boring. I'm not in school right now, the only place I go is to work, church, to pick my sister up, and occasionally hang out with friends. That's pretty simple right? But every week there is something different, something that has happened in my life to make me have to vent to my friend. So we joked again about how I needed to start a blog. How it would keep others pretty entertained. Even though we were joking, it still seemed to be a pretty good idea. Not so I could write to entertain the people who will read this, but because I feel like my life is a puzzle. A huge, overwhelming, million piece puzzle, and as I said before, I fail at puzzles. So I started this blog to be able to write down my thoughts, my experiences, my opinions, my lessons learned and lessons I have yet to learn. I started this blog to organize some of the pieces to my puzzle so that maybe I could start working on finally seeing the bigger picture. I started this blog because I need help with my puzzle,I'm overwhelmed, impatient, and blind, and maybe your reading this and need a little help with your puzzle too.
I follow a couple other great blogs. The thing about them is that they always have something that teaches me something. They always have an answer to a problem or what not. My posts will be my honest confessions, my random thoughts, my humble opinions, and maybe I might complain every once in awhile. But every single post I hope will help me towards organizing all of these pieces so I see where things fit. And maybe I write something that helps you. That woul be great! Maybe I write something and you have your own opinion...or some advice. Write back to me! I'm not always gonna have answers, but i will always have thoughts and will always be open to someone else's. I want to to know what you guys think! Puzzles always get solved faster when there is more than one person working on it.
So here I go. I'm opening up my box and dumping the pieces out.
