Life = A Crossword Puzzle

It’s time for a change. I need a difference in my life, in my dreams, and in my heart. I want to know where I’m going, to be secure in my decisions.

But who ever said life was easy?

Life is like a crossword puzzle. Alone, the boxes could hold so many words; have countless answers, endless possibilities. You would never have the fear of being wrong, unless it is misspelled.

5 spaces.

Horse, doubt, crazy, dream, jumbo… You get the point.

But when there can only be one correct answer per question asked, what happens if your mind goes blank? When you do not know the right response?

You search.

Maybe for a long time, maybe for a little… if you have the resources (a.k.a. Google)

You look until you have found it, the piece that fits, the word that possibly fills in a blank space for another answer, connecting the solutions that are becoming clearer with every pencil stroke.

As more white squares are filled, understanding sets in, making the final questions easier to solve.

Life is like a crossword puzzle. As you find the answers to the problems put before you, you realize that they are intertwined. That somehow one solution leads to the next and the next and so on and so forth, until you’ve finally find the last piece of the puzzle that was missing. The past discoveries made about yourself are hints, cheats even, for the answers you have yet to solve.

But you shouldn’t stress when you’re unsuccessful. Life wasn’t meant to be figured out right away because, if it was, then things would be a lot easier.

If you don’t struggle, it means that you’re not trying or that you’ve already found the answer and the time has come to move on to the next question.