Hopeful Hues

Puzzle Pieces

"You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky."
                - A. R. Asher

Dedicated to: Shattered_Crayon

"Although things might seem tough, they do get better. There are many things life has to offer. There are foods they haven't tried, songs they haven't heard, movies they haven't seen, people they haven't met. And yes, things might get worse before they get better, but there are so many unexpected things that life will give them that will leave them amazed. Those things will be reminders of why they should push through the hard times."

-TheBlondeWarrior

Puzzles are hard. They take time and patience and make everyone frustrated from time to time. There are pieces that look exactly the same - which seems to make everything a little more difficult - and the older you get, the more complicated the puzzles get. I'm gonna ask everyone who reads this to think of the puzzle pieces as choices. Yes, they look alike, and yes, they can be shaped similarly, and yes, you may think they can go in an incorrect spot at first.. but they go in different places. No matter what, they have one specific spot, and that's just where they go - no questions asked. This is a very good example for choices. They may look like they have the same outcome, but each one is so special and so unique. Every single one will take you in a different direction in life, and can change the way you look at the picture as a whole. Now, think of the puzzle pieces as people. Some are colorful, some are bland, and some are just really, really weird, you know? But that's the beauty of it. They're all different; they're all their own; and they are all meant to be in the picture.

I truly do believe that life is made up of the little moments, whether it be a card game or an insult competition. And everything is worth it: the fights teach lessons, the pain makes you stronger, the bad times remind you just how amazing the good times are, and the good times themselves are lived in the moment and happily fade in with the rest in the sand grains that make up life. For me, that is so exciting because my life is anything but grand, and as hard as it is sometimes, I find the good. And if you can't, ask someone else. I'll tell you this right now: if you're reading this, you woke up this morning. Your eyesight, with or without glasses, is good enough to read this.

Amen for that.

One time, a little while ago, I read something. It was about how something good you've done can easily be forgotten by you, but be engraved in the mind if another for the rest of their life. Isn't that amazing? And there's so many people in this world, so many places, all of it waiting to be done and found and seen and enjoyed. Every bit of it desperate to be discovered, and somebody's gotta do it :).

So find it. Do everything until you find what it is that you do.

If it needs to get worse to get better, let it. The good times are that much more worth waiting for, and I promise you that once they do, they come flooding in.

It's worth waiting a little longer.

It's worth spending time on working towards it.

It's worth putting in the extra effort.

It's worth grinning and bearing it.

It's worth every second.

The longer you wait, the better it is, and the more puzzle pieces you collect along the way. And each one adds itself to the picture as necessary, making it, as a whole, so wonderful and so humanly tragic that you just can't help but see it as the most beautiful thing in the world.

It's worth collecting the pieces to make the picture.