Your Life As A Puzzle

Your Life As A Puzzle - To date the largest jigsaw puzzle is made of 30,000 pieces and was created . Every person has their own 30,000 piece puzzle. our own personal puzzles come down to 365 days a year for 70 to 80 years. Whenever we start a puzzle, we usually start with the edges first and work toward the middle. Each piece has different colors and different shapes. No two pieces are the same. Some pieces are full of color. Some are white and some are black. Some pieces make up people, family, friends and animals. The question is, what is your puzzle going to be of? Is it going to be boring or is it going to be exciting? Let’s examine what these pieces mean for you and what they represent.The corner pieces are your parents and step parents or those that have raised you. The four sides are, your brothers and sisters, nieces, nephews, aunts, and uncles. As you work on your image you begin to see all the animals you had and all the accomplishments you achieved.Everything you did in your entire life is in this one puzzle. -There is so much color and you are getting excited because you just cannot wait to see what it is going to look like. Most puzzles have a picture on the box to follow but your puzzle, has no picture. The picture that you need to follow is your own life. Every day you live creates a new piece. Unlike a full puzzle that you dump on the table, your puzzle pieces show up one day at a time.All of the joy you had because of the colors of your animals and memories are now fading fast. You are now thinking “Is there any hope of getting this joy back? Why are these black pieces coming up on my image? " So now you are just finishing your image. It has taken you at least 40 years to complete yourself. After dealing with a lot of mental health issues, you have learned that you now have PTSD. Everything that has happened to you has left pieces behind and now you are finding out that these pieces are the black ones that are full of PTSD and Anxiety. - By working with a therapist, you can learn just how to change the black pieces to color, one at a time. The most important thing to remember is that it is going to take time. As you start working on your friends, the black pieces are now starting to show up. These pieces however are where your friends connect to you. Come to find out, after you have been talking with your therapist you have been keeping too much in and pushing people away. Every time they try to help with some experience they had, you do not want to hear it because you just do not want to think about it. The hardest thing to learn with PTSD is boundaries, when to keep people out and when to let people in. As much as we do not want to live life with PTSD we cannot just skip a few days or weeks by over taking medication or alcohol. Life will always continue one day at a time and it is up to us to turn our 30,000 piece puzzle into three options. Option One: Having your puzzle look like a pile of trash. Option Two: Having a bunch of pieces that look all bent and torn up. Or Option Three: A grand puzzle that looks like the Garden of Eden. 　　　 　　　 Written By: Chad Lougee - Marion KY