The Jigsaw. An Analogy.

The Jigsaw. An Analogy.

We are a jigsaw, the jigsaw that makes up humanity. We are all the same, we are all jigsaw pieces, yet we are different.
And when all jigsaw pieces are present, flipped the right way up, connected, and exposing their unique part within the whole. The full and beautiful picture is seen. The puzzle is no longer a puzzle.

So why do we try to imitate another jigsaw piece? Why does one jigsaw piece say to the other, this is how you should be, do, look, think, act, and feel? Why does one jigsaw piece control other jigsaw pieces and create a collective fracture from the whole? Or one jigsaw piece will say ‘hey you lot, follow me, be like me, do as me, I know the way’.

Two reasons. Beliefs and relationship. The jigsaw is based on relationships. Relation to other jigsaw pieces is how we navigate this human experience and outer world. How we relate to our environment and everything in it. Therefore it is our very own belief systems that keep us disconnected from ourselves, the other jigsaw pieces, and the whole.

We have been indoctrinated with lie after lie. False narratives that have convinced all that they are not in fact a jigsaw piece, connected to all, and making up a big picture.
And so our picture, our collective humanity, looks ugly, disjointed, scattered, and with an image barely visible. Jigsaw pieces frazzled, burnt out, and weary. Disharmony and disease is the name of the game.

So to return to harmony and ease. To be a big picture. We must know we are a jigsaw piece. We must be a jigsaw piece. Exactly who we are, as we are. Whatever our shape, our colour, our pattern. Our knobbly bits, or our straight edges, but that we must be. We can’t fit in, unless we are different.

Our only responsibility is to be present, flipped the right way up, connected, and exposing our own unique part within the whole. The way in which we relate to another jigsaw piece then helps us to find our place within the big picture.

Have you put a jigsaw together? Do you not in fact hold the piece in your hand, look at it, then hold it up against another piece, flip it around, try and squeeze it in, move it around, trial and error until you find its true position. Yes, because every other jigsaw piece will help you to find your place.

So the journey of life is not to get too attached to the trial and error, to think you are wrong, or are doing it wrong, because your piece doesn’t fit during the interim period of finding your true spot. Not to believe there is fear in moving to the next jigsaw piece leaving the last one behind. The trick is to be you, and not try to force, control, or squeeze yourself up against another jigsaw piece to try and fit in. Or to allow another jigsaw piece to try and force, control, or squeeze you in to where you do not fit. Not to try and change the very piece you are. Who told you your piece was wrong anyway?

Every jigsaw piece is on its way home. All taking an infinite number of different paths. So unless we fully show up as our unique self, allowing every other jigsaw self to freely show up as themselves, we will always be a chaotic disharmonious mess, both individually, and collectively. And ultimately, lost in the puzzle.

Why, don’t you see? Life can be so very easy, all we have to do is be who we are, and show up as exactly who we are. Its the only responsibility we ever have. So the happy jigsaw pieces are the pieces that love and accept themselves just as they are. So the key to the whole game is to know you are a jigsaw piece, and to know the way in which the other jigsaw pieces help us to find our way. To have no judgement of the other jigsaw pieces, because they simply just are. Whether they are in the wrong place, flipped the right way up, or the wrong way up, they just are. Whether they fit with you, or they don't, they just are. The key is to know you are part of a complete jigsaw.

Therefore you are the jigsaw. And then it matters not, how long, or how far you travel, how right, or how wrong you get it, because you will have already seen yourself coming before you’ve even arrived. So therefore there is no right or wrong. There was only ever illusion. Your puzzle was already solved.

With Love,

Julie