Puzzles...

I really enjoyed putting puzzles together as a kid...I think it taught me to not look at things so one dimensionally and to conceptualize how things need to look and what to do to get there. I know that as we get older we sometimes don't put puzzles together in the same way...and sometimes we do. The puzzles we face as adults are far more complicated than the puzzles we faced as children.
As a kid, when you were putting the puzzle together you could always look at the picture on the front of the box for guidance...and unless you lost a piece, the picture always looked like the box. The puzzles we solve as adults don't come with pictures much anymore. They are crafted as we go along, sometimes forcing a piece where it shouldn't belong, and other times holding onto pieces when we don't need to, because we don't know where they fit, or if they do at all. I think what disappoints me most is when you finally think you have the puzzle all fit together, and the picture is not what you expected at all - or you don't like what you've come up with. You have to take apart the pieces and start to put the puzzle together again...and hope for a better outcome.