"Pick a Word, Paint a Story #25" | Life is a Puzzle Not a Problem |

Assalamoalaikum

I hope you all in the best of health and iman. It’s me your friend @isha-rehman and today I’m participating in the wonderful and thought-provoking contest “Pick a Word Paint a Story #25” organized by our lovely community @hindwhale. The word I’ve chosen from the given three is PUZZLE. This word instantly caught my attention because I believe it perfectly describes the way life unfolds mysteriously piece by piece often confusing but ultimately beautiful.
Let me take you into a story and a reflection a journey through how I came to see life itself as a puzzle.

When Life Feel Like a Puzzle with Missing Piece:

From a young age I was always fascinated by puzzle. I remembered sitting on the floor as a child surrounded by hundred of little oddly shaped piece trying to match the color and corner to form the full picture on the box. Some piece would fit easily. Others would frustrate me. Sometime I thought a piece belonged in a certain place only to discover it didnt. I would get annoyed and want to give up but something kept me trying again. And now many years later I realize that this is exactly how life works.

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We are all given pieces our family our education our relationships our experiences and we are told to figure it out. But unlike a real puzzle life doesn’t come with a reference image. There no box to show us what the final picture should looked like. We simply have to trust that someday it will all come togethered. There have been many time in my life when I held puzzle piece that just didnt make sense. Moments of failure. Times of heartbreak. Periods of deep confusion. I ask myself Why is this happening to me? or What the purpose of this pain?

But slowly I learned something powerful: Every single piece matters. Even the dark strange and painful ones. Because without them my life wouldnt be the samed. Those hard moment shape who I am. They helped me grow gain strength and understand others with more compassion.

Puzzle Pieces That Teach Us Patience

What puzzle really teach us is patience. You cant force a piece to fit where it doesnt belong. The same go for people and opportunity in life. Sometime we tried so hard to make something work only to realized it wasnt meant to be part of our picture. And that okay. We often compare our puzzles to others. We see someone else's life coming together beautifully and wonder why ours feels incomplete. But the truth is we all have different puzzles. Different shapes. Different patterns. Different timelines. Comparison only leads to frustration. Acceptance leads to peace.

In the End..

Life is not a problem to be solve or a race to be won. It a puzzle to be live and experience piece by piece. Dont rush. Dont give up when a few piece dont fit right away. One day you will looked back and realized that everything made sense in it own time. That all those confusing painful joyful and silent moment were building the masterpiece of you. So take your time. Trust the process. And most importantly believe that your picture is worth completing no matter how many pieces are still missing.

I’m truly thankful to @hindwhale and this beautiful Steemit community for giving us such meaningful words to reflect on. Writing this made me feel emotional grateful and even more hopeful about the unknown parts of my own puzzle.

i am inviting my friends:
@paholags
@artist1111
@sana-khan01

Thank you so much for take the time to visit my post. I truly enjoyed being a part of this community.