Puzzle Piece

Life is a puzzle, we know that. A conglomerate of fragmented skews that “in the end it will be good, and if it’s not yet good, it’s not the end” fit together perfectly, to form an overall picture.

Puzzle pieces is great imagery for dating; a guy can have parts to him, that seem to almost fit with yours, aligning quirks ;) or the way you feel when an emotional connection has been made, you’re giving parts of yourself, little puzzle pieces are exchanged, and you know, that should you ever see this person ever again, on the street or even on another date (yes this happened in the same week, guy was dating a girl in my area and I’m like hello buddy “if it isn’t the ghost of last dates past ;) that a certain knowingness is still in the air.

It’s okay, to have a bunch of skews dispersed amongst a few people, maybe it’s the play on words skews and sku’s like your own little serial number- dating when done right, is supposed to be an experience in which you’re giving and receiving. A puzzle piece exchange.

I’ve learned, and continue to do so- not to take it all so seriously. All the moving pieces is what will eventually form the final picture- and wouldn’t I want that picture to be brighter? More colorful and knowing, because each experience was taken as it comes- and it added a dynamic to the final portrait. Even if pieces seem misplaced, fragmented, “useless”, there’s reason for it all- not to get all spiritual but a close friend painted it so beautifully- that when a person is unborn- and the bas Kol calls out bas ploni to ploni, there are some Malachim who are hard of hearing ;) and so even though a name like Yaakov Shlomo is called out malachim hear varying renditions- and when it’s time to meet these potentials, the fragmented name game is what ensues - this post goes out to the puzzle pieces who are part of our overall portraits. Yaakovs, Moshes, Naftalis, Dovid’s, Yosefs, Avrahams, Tzvis, Srulis, Micheals* ;) and that final name. Who when we envision that guy who’s name will pop up in our phone screens, and we’ll just know, that’s my “🦾”.

No last name- no “guy Shadchan set me up with from L.A., just that one special name. He’s that final missing puzzle piece and the ones before were part of the framework to build.

*Names have been changed 😉