The Puzzle

I once stayed a weekend at my Great-Grandmother's house in Indiana. I remember that telltale old-people smell in her house and artificial grass doormats. One night while I was there, she gave me a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle to do over the course of our stay. My parents went to bed after I had dumped all the pieces out hoping that I wouldn't make a mess. When they woke up the next morning, it was completed.

I can't explain why I like doing puzzles so much or why doing them is a natural thing for me. That would be like asking Einstein why he discovered his Theory of Relativity. I'm sure it would be somewhere along the lines of, "it was there, so I did it". And this is true for any puzzle, across the board for me. Crosswords, jigsaws, word searches, whatever.

The puzzle piece image first pops up in my career discourse page in relation to the creation of a movie. Movies like Pulp Fiction and Snatch consist of interweaving storylines that all coalesce at the end in one glorious climax. Its a great feeling to figure something out in a movie, that "Ohhhh, I see" moment when it is shown that everything that everyone has a purpose and affects others (hint hint to the emblem). The editing/stories are like a puzzle, broken into shots and scenes that mean nothing by themselves, but are part of a whole.

Another instance of puzzle imagery is in my entertainment discourse page. In it, I describe how when doing a puzzle, I have a keen eye for slight variations in color and shade. It helps doing puzzles with a big blue sky or a lot of green grass.

I did a puzzle on time that was a photomosaic of elvis in black and white. Every single piece was a certain shade of grey. I finished it in 2 days. I don't know why I can do this so well, and my friends often poke fun at me for loving something like a jigsaw puzzle, but it doesn't bother me. I like weird things, and it makes me unique.

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