it's a puzzle how the picture comes together one piece at a time
I used to have a lot of wishes.
I wished to be independently wealthy, to be a published author or a renowned artist (or both!). I wished for perfect health, for spiritual enlightenment. I wished for a simple life, free from stressors and from having to compromise my values for the sake of “getting along” or being a “team player.”
And a lot of my wishes have come true, maybe not in the ways I imagined, but in ways that have left me pretty satisfied with how my life looks today. And those wishes that didn’t come true… the funny thing is, I don’t really wish for them anymore.
My life falls into place one piece at a time. Like a puzzle. I don’t know where the next piece will come from, or what it will look like, or where it will fit. Often I don’t even recognize that some experience is a part of the puzzle. I try to trust the process. I don’t always succeed, but I try.
Beyond myself, I have fears for the future of humanity and of the Earth. But no amount of wishing will help that. Determination, action, self-discipline, clarity of values, patience, education, hope, selflessness… perhaps my wish is that we all develop those traits which will help us piece together a saner, sustainable future.
Let’s piece together peace. Together.
Peace.
The Daily Post photo challenge: Wish
What Rhymes with Stanza? 
Good thought and wishes. I also wish that no puzzle every had a lost piece!
janet
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That’s a good wish! I don’t know how the puzzle piece in the first photo came to be laying along the road all by itself. Maybe there should be a Facebook page for lost and found puzzle pieces 🙂
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well-said 🙂 🙂
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Life seems to also to be like the puzzle, in that the more pieces that are discovered and fit into place, the easier the whole is to complete and understand. 🙂
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I agree.
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Also I love the picture of the lone piece lost in the grass. A part of something bigger that may never find it’s place.
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Now I feel like I should have picked it up and brought it home. A rescue puzzle piece.
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Nicely said and well-shown
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Thank you!
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What a great post, Maggie. A wish to have nothing more/much to wish is ideal, isn’t it? 🙂
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It certainly is!
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Let’s piece together peace. Together. ✌🏼💫🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️
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