Life's journey is like building a puzzle

Imagine there is a table. Every area of this table is filled with puzzle pieces, in near infinite shapes and sizes. These pieces are going to represent every aspect of your world. Emotions, experiences, people, places, etc. Currently each piece is devoid of any image. As you build, things that have affected, defined, shaped, and touched your life find their place. For visual purposes let's say this table is round. Now there is you, standing over it. And this is a very large table since it must fit what eventually is going to display an image silhouetting your life. You can walk a path around it. There is space below it. There are all the edges that come along with it that can allow people, places, things to be beside you or across from you and build with you. This creates the dynamic of the ever changing things of life and also shows how aspects can alter, change, manipulate the way our final image presents itself. To a degree we have control. Since this is your table, you have the ability to navigate it, to remove things you don't want there, as well as allowing for things to step up to the table and share in the image of what you are and what you continue to progress ultimately into. The part where it gets outside our control is the sheer quantity of pieces in front of you. Intentionally and unintentionally pieces may fall off. These are the pieces that create the deepest image of you. They bring out your strengths and your weaknesses. You may bend, kneel, lay down, stretch to grab these pieces. You may catch them before they fall or you may choose to leave them where they lie. They can hold your deepest pains, your biggest fears. They can also hold your happiest memories, your hopes and dreams. The different ways to pick up these pieces are just examples of the different experiences that we may happily or unhappily have to face. Sometimes it's a welcome challenge. Other times they're obstacles that take learning a new motion to overcome. Without the pieces falling, we as humans could never grow. We would all be the same and wouldn't hold onto the individual beauty that we all possess. In time when these pieces find their way back to the table, the hard work and the effort will leave the most heart filled image of you doing the best you can with what is presented before you. The end result when all the edges come together and what will be seen. Is the image of you living your life and being alive!