That Missing Piece

A person can spend a lifetime of sharing happiness and laughter with others without expecting something in return. For the smiles that one receives back is the absolutely best payment one could offer. Yet the happiness one shares with others is oftentimes missing from one's own life. It's like searching for that one missing piece of an incomplete puzzle. For that missing piece can be considered the key to finding one's own happiness but the question remains, will one ever find it?

We all have walked down the road of life searching for answers to the questions we seek. Such questions as are we alone in the universe, what is the meaning of life, but the biggest question of them all is will we find love? Those questions we seek are hard to find because the road of life is unpredictable, and the people we meet along the way may or may not have the answers. BUT they can hopefully guide us in the right direction and be somewhat of an advisor along our journey.

In some ways, our lives are like a puzzle and every piece shows the past experiences one has had over the years. The happy times, the sad times, and the times in between that one doesn't really want to see ever again. Each puzzle piece represents a time in each of our lives that represents successes, defeats, moral victories, absolute tragedies, loves lost, loves found, loves lost again, and mistakes made in the past which one can learn from in the future. Every piece of the puzzle that fit one to another represented his or her life which marked a beginning and an ending.

From the very beginning, we were created by the love of two parents. Parents that continued to love each of us as we grew older. In retrospect, our parents are the two most important pieces that keep the puzzle together. For they are the backbone of one's own upbringing and without them, one would not be who he or she is today. It has been said that every beginning must also have an ending. We clearly do not know what each of our endings will be, but do we really want to know? In my own view, I want to be surprised.

Someone once said, ~If you look back at your life and remember the good, the bad, and everything in between, would you smile?~ The answer I came up with is yes I would. The life I have led so far is filled with family and friends that have my back every step of the way. Yet, that missing piece that completes my puzzle hasn't been found yet, hopefully one day. In the movie Field Of Dreams a voice said to Kevin Costner's character, "If You Build It, They Will Come." Mine would just simply say, "If You Are Patient, She Will Come.”