Composing Myself
The Prompt: A Brand New You, Effective Tomorrow––Tomorrow you get to become anyone in the world that you wish. Who are you? You can choose to be anyone alive today, or someone gone long ago. If you decide to stay “you” share your rationale.
How could I choose to become another when I’m still trying to become myself? Start all over? I don’t think so. Every person is a puzzle bent on solving itself. Perhaps for some the puzzle comes fully assembled, but if so, they are people I’ve never met. Why would I want to begin a new puzzle before the one I’ve started is completed? Finish the job, I say.
Perhaps in another life the chance to construct a new life will be provided, but in this life, we are given only one life to solve. No one knows the reason why this life is not perfect from the offset. That puzzle is one for philosophers to solve. In the meantime, I am busy enough figuring out what goes where today and in my own life. I’ll leave the assembling and breakdown and reassembly of the world at large to others.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
“Perhaps in another life the chance to construct a new life will be provided, but in this life, we are given only one life to solve.” Loved that line!
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It is a puzzle. Most of us have the edges defined but are still muddling around in the middle!
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I’ve benefited from your profound thoughts today. I especially love this line:
Every person is a puzzle bent on solving itself.
It should be a famous quote. 🙂
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Thanks, Christine. You’ve made it famous enough just by your statement. Happy New Year.
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Sometime I’d like to do a pingback to your article, too. These are great thoughts to start out a new year.
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You are welcome to do so.
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I loved your imagery for our life as a puzzle to be solved.
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That was a jigsaw puzzle I gave my sister. We put it together this Xmas and a number of visitors became addicted to its solution!
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I agree with Christine. I love that line, too. Beautifully said!
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Reblogged this on Impromptu Promptlings and commented:
I didn’t do the Daily Prompt for today, but I so love Judy’s answer that I had to blog it. Thanks for sharing, Judy!
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Thank you for the post.
Our strength comes through self-examination, we
can help ourselves to grow or accept the status quo.
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