One of my favourite hobbies is building puzzles.  I can get lost for hours.  I have not done one in a while, this is due to confined space.

Thinking about puzzles and looking at one I had built I could see how people are like puzzle pieces.  Everyone has their place in the world, their fit, their part.  When you build a puzzle you will find pieces which slot in so easily and fit perfectly.  There is a synergy, a spark an instant connection.  When you meet people like these you find you can chat for hours and hours and talk about anything under the sun.  You can even be  apart from these people for long periods of time  and just pick up where you left off.

Then there are puzzle pieces which sort of well they do fit but it took some time to get them to fit.  Perhaps it required a connection of some sort.  These are people you meet, you get on with them and become a part of your network, there is no synergy, you both like each other but the magic is not there.  You keep in touch and you support each other when you can.

Then there are puzzle pieces which don’t fit at all in a section but actually fit somewhere else.  You meet people in your life who you thought you’d get on with but to find out later on that you don’t, you are like oil and water. A lot of the time you end up parting ways and not always in a pleasant way.  It does not make any one individual wrong or a bad person, it just means you don’t fit together as part of a puzzle.

Everyone has a place, a set of friends, a group where they fit in.  We are all connected to each other, but I believe we all have a place where we fit in to make the connections work.  So if there are people who you are not getting on with perhaps your puzzle piece and their puzzle piece just don’t fit.  If you do fit, nuture it, build it and make it flourish.

What are your thoughts?