Mystery Unfold

Amanda Foxon-Hill once said, ~Life is like origami, unfold it slowly and observe each twist, turn and crease and you will understand it. Handle it carelessly and all you have is a blank sheet of paper. Your challenge is to see the beauty in every fold. Stay awake, have fun, and enjoy your unique journey.~ If you think about it, life and the art of paper folding otherwise known as origami are synonymous with each other because at first glance they are both seemingly easy to experience. Although life can be perceived as seemingly easy, it’s also considerably complicated and confusingly complex as well. For the most part it depends on the level of skill, patience, and the amount of time you’re willing to put in hoping that aspects of life will fold, so to speak, in such a way it hopefully turns how you actually wanted it to become.

Let me ask you this question to those who are experts and/or at the beginning level of origami, what was deemed absolutely challenging in being able to create something while carefully utilizing an intricate technique of folding sequences to a plain piece of paper? I think it’s safe to say one of the challenges a person faces or has faced is getting the plain piece of paper you’re folding precisely right in hopes of establishing an accurate or close to accurate representation of what you’re attempting to create. Thinking about it further, it’s the same way in regard to life as each of us have our own skill set either as a beginner or expert in trying to create something from the plain piece of paper we’ve been provided with in hopes of somehow creatively turning it into something positively awe inspiring without any visibly negative creases showing, so to speak.

As I said before, one of the challenges a person faces or has faced is getting the plain piece of paper you’re folding it precisely right in hopes of establishing an accurate or close to accurate representation of what you’re attempting to create. Oftentimes, there is an unfortunate mindset of believing your life is just a plain piece of paper and all you’re focusing on is the origami of what other people created for themselves. In other words, the perception of living a boring life that lacks excitement while everyone else is living life to the fullest. What it primarily comes down to is focusing on your own piece of plain paper and patiently creating/folding aspects of your life in such a positive rather than a negative way it gradually changes, as well as excites your overall perception so much so you’ve become a genuinely happier individual.

Without a doubt, it takes time until you’ve mastered the art of origami or at least come close to it, which means there’s a tremendous amount of practice to be had. For it’s a thought provoking situation indeed that like origami a person can spend countless hours trying to figure out their own life. Of course, experiencing a roller coaster of emotions such anger, fear, hatred, jealousy, anxiety, doubt, worry, insecurity, sadness, frustration, bitterness, disappointment, utter contempt, etc. represent each time you’ve found yourself constantly refolding a particular aspect of life so many times that it unfortunately gets torn apart, in a manner of speaking. Ultimately, you just have to keep practicing and learning from your mistakes before you’re able to finally create a relatively awe inspiring origami life design that you’re most proud of.

In retrospect, when it comes to the origami of life it’s a quintessential mystery as there are aspects of our plain piece of paper that haven’t been folded as of yet. True, being able to correctly solve a number of the folded areas we’ve not only made mistakes in, but have been considerably problematic over the years is either a personal or professional victory/achievement whereby leaving us breathing a sigh of relief. Hey, it’s from those aforementioned personal/professional victories that we continue “folding” and each fold brings us closer to solving that one illusive fold that completes one’s origami mystery of life that hasn’t been completely mastered. In the end, enjoy figuring out the origami like process of life and instead of always stressing out simply let the mystery unfold on its own.