Day 06: Life is a Temporary Assignment

All that is not eternal is eternally useless.
-C.S. Lewis

Life is a big jigsaw puzzle. I have to assemble each pieces, otherwise they won't make sense. I have to painstakingly connect one part to its pair in order to capture the bigger picture. With a little of luck, I might assemble a portion in a very short time. But of course, there would be instances when I have to remove what is already assembled since they were not really meant to be paired together. These are moments when I thought I have already emerged triumphant in my quest to solve it, only to find out later on that there were some mistakes; sometimes fatal, sometimes not. There are points when others would assist me. But they would never last long. They would come and leave, just like the seasons in a year. At the end of the day, I would find myself alone, putting the jigsaw pieces together. In solving the puzzle, I certainly have my own upturns and downturns, even moments of heralded and missed opportunities. But only those pieces properly fitted would count. The process is not unilinear. In fact, it is hazy; I am always left alone to my devices in order to figure it out. And when I am almost done with it, I was finally told to leave it behind. If only I have known it, I would’ve not focused alone on matching the jigsaw pieces together but on catching each particular emotion I had every time I am able to finish a portion, on how each relationship felt every time some one would assist me, and on the joy of taking my time in deciphering the puzzle-those things that I could carry one with me.