A 1000 Piece Puzzle

On the 8th of January at 7:56PM, I completed my first (and last) 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle. A beautiful picture titled, ‘A walk in Paris.’

Lessons from a jigsaw puzzle:

1. Everything looks intimidating at first, sometimes you just need to go ahead and do it anyway, because otherwise you’ve just made a mess and not taken responsibility for it.
2. Pieces that seem to fit together may not actually be meant to be together.
3. When it gets overwhelming and stops being fun, get up and leave (for a while.)
4. When two pieces fit, you’ll know, it’s like an orgasm.
5. Sometimes the pieces will only make sense when you look at them from a very senseless angle (I’m talking in between your legs/ upside down/ leg around your neck type senseless.)
6. Some pieces may not belong where you thought they did,
7. And yet, every piece belongs, no matter how odd it may seem to you.
8. If you force two wrong pieces together, you run the danger of ruining the pieces, and destructing the puzzle.
9. It may be really small, it may require strong vision, but there is always a clue.
10. It’s a fucking puzzle, don’t try to seek too many life lessons from it.