Puzzles

          So ever since I was a little kid I really loved puzzles. My mom told me I was a natural problem solver.. that's why I asked so many questions an was so god damn annoying as a kid. I think it's why I want to be a teacher. So I can pose problems and show people how to solve them. Puzzles are all around us some have 4 pieces and we solve them every day, like homework, others have a few more pieces and take a little more time. But the way I always solve puzzles is pretty quick process and I think it's what lets me be so relaxed about most things. I usually start by looking at the box (the problem) and try and see exactly what I'm supposed to doing. Then I do the easiest part first, I do the border, the framework, the basic outline of the puzzle, and if I'm lucky I start putting some clusters of other pieces together, everything helps. Next comes the hardest part. You basically have to guess and try to see what fits together, and if it doesn't you have to move on, but don't forget about the pieces you passed up on because they are coming back later. Now after a couple minutes, hours, days, even weeks or months or years the picture you were looking at in the beginning starts to form and it actually gets a bit easier as you go on.  If you get stuck, take a step back, leave it alone for a while and maybe go back to it after a little while. And here's the thing... my brother is OCD (not really but...) and he hates it if I lose a piece or don't quite finish a puzzle. I like to fix things, solve problems, but I firmly believe that nothing, especially with people can ever be fixed 100%, and so I just live with the picture the puzzle leaves me with. So what if its a piece or two short... thats no reason to throw it out. Should you burn a forest after cutting down one tree or scrap a song your writing if one word doesn't rhyme? No, you just have to either, change it, or change your view of it. Sometimes we are dealt lousy hands and given difficult puzzles to solve. But puzzles are mostly fun because you can do them with other people. You can lay out all the pieces and your friend could easily put 1 and 2 together while you where stuck looking at 3 and 4. It's a puzzle and it's supposed to be fun, so don't beat yourself up over a few missing pieces.

Your helpful puzzle master,
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