My proposal of playing the 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle was rejected by Maria because she was sure that I could never finish it during my stay in Gozo. Therefore, we started with a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle with a picture of English castle on it. I thought at most 2 or 3 hours I could finish it and put it back to Pascoe's room. However, as the sun got down and the sky became darker and darker, I found out that to get a piece of puzzle fit in the place wasn't as easy as a piece of cake. When I was about to give up the same day I started, Maria came and help me with the most difficult part. So, I got the motivation to keep on.
While playing the jigsaw puzzle, I contemplated on something that I never thought seriously before.
Something about life.
Every piece of puzzle has its own place, just like everyone on the world has their own role. The picture could never be completed without any single piece of puzzle. Sometimes, two pieces of puzzle can be mistakenly put together because they seemed to fit each other. However, as you keep going on, you will eventually find out he/she wasn't the right one, and you will find the interlocked piece some day, just takes a bit more time and patience. The puzzle you have in your hand might seem to be impossible to fit in any of the place, however, you still need to try and try and try, sometimes it looks impossible, but you never know.
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| Life is like a big piece of jigsaw puzzle |
Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
by Kate&Anna McGarrigleLike the seeds of the weeds
In an Autumn wind
We met out in mid air
And fell together
In a patch of ground
And grew to be a pair
But not a pair in the usual sense
As you were much too tall
With curly hair while mine was straight
And I was much to small
We were like interlocking pieces
In the Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
Now the puzzle is faded
Half the pieces are lost
It's limp with ten years wear
Our edges are ragged
And the fit is loose
I guess that we'd best take care
Our scene is pastoral
Naive like our minds
Not fun to be in some times
We want a change from the fields and the skies
And crave some dots or some lines
We were like interlocking pieces
In the Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
