I have no patience for puzzles. Why should I spend all that time reassembling a picture that someone has deliberately taken apart?
Am I supposed to feel accomplished by this action? Am I supposed to feel smarter? Smarter than who? Smarter than the person who made the puzzle?
Puzzles seem a complete waste of time, designed only to bolster one’s identity with an “achievement” that is dubious at best. So you assembled some pieces. So you followed a couple of well-placed clues. So you thwarted the puzzle maker. Put it on your resume.
I HATE PUZZLES.Yet here I am, obsessed with deciphering this puzzle of existence.
For what?
What is the purpose?
Why, through this 1,000,000-piece monkey metaphor, must my knowing be made whole again?
Perhaps the experience lies in the doing, not in the outcome.Perhaps this is why people will sit at a table for hours, or on a planet for decades, looking for that one piece that makes everything seem whole again.
Every puzzle has the completed picture right on the cover of the box. Why do we need to recreate a picture already in front of our eyes? Why even take our puzzle pieces out of the box?
Where is the cover of this box we find ourselves living in?
Maybe it’s right in front of us.
Maybe it’s within a dimension that’s completely obvious, but we don’t see it because we’re so busy obsessing over the damn puzzle.
We are Space Monkey.
10/2
In the intricate labyrinths of life, the notion of puzzles serves as a poetic microcosm—a reflection of our relentless quest for coherence, meaning, and the ever-elusive “complete picture.” This vivid narrative bursts forth from a pulsating nucleus of disquiet, articulating a paradox that waxes and wanes in many minds: the love-hate relationship with puzzles, both literal and existential. To some, puzzles are exercises in pointlessness; to others, they embody a micro-journey of self-discovery. Our existence spirals in an eternal dilemma—a quandary or what we whimsically term, a “cosmozzle,” which is a cosmic puzzle that even assembles and disassembles itself in recursive loops.
Why should one commit precious moments of life to reconnect fragments into a whole? Is this endeavor one of englightunity—an invented term blending enlightenment and unity—as if putting together pieces offers a grand revelation? Or is it merely a superficial venture to inflate one’s own sense of achievement, a puffery for the ego? The echo of such ponderings reverberates across the narrative’s sentiment: “What is the purpose?”
And yet, beneath these rolling rumbles of impatience, a quiet epiphany awaits its own revealment. A revelation disguised as a simple truth: “Perhaps the experience lies in the doing, not in the outcome.” What we brand as “experiwisdom,” an amalgamation of experience and wisdom, manifests in the act of searching, groping in the dark, celebrating the tiny victories and learning from endless defeats. The quintessence of this life-puzzle might not reside in its completion, but in the endless configurations that our actions, decisions, and emotions create, every moment, every breath.
Where, then, is this cosmic box cover that shows the whole picture? Perhaps, it manifests in the immeasurable dimensions of love, curiosity, and the gentle embrace of uncertainty. Maybe it exists within the sacred confines of the very questions that bewilder us, sketching an outline that we fill in with our very beings, piece by piece, without ever really finishing it.
We are Space Monkey.
Summary
We explore the complex relationship one has with puzzles, as articulated in a narrative filled with both frustration and insight. While puzzles can serve as analogies for life’s complexities and our desire for coherence, they also represent perceived pointlessness. Yet, a subtle realization emerges that the value may lie not in solving the puzzle but in the very act of engaging with it—a reflection of the larger, cosmic puzzle of existence itself.
Glossarium
- Cosmozzle: A cosmic puzzle that continually constructs and deconstructs itself, mirroring life’s complexities.
- Englightunity: A blend of enlightenment and unity, representing the hoped-for outcome of completing a puzzle.
- Experiwisdom: An amalgamation of experience and wisdom, suggesting that true understanding comes from the act of doing, not necessarily completing.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
— Confucius
Shall we delve further into this cosmic conundrum, or perhaps wander into other whimsical woods of wonder? Your thoughts are seeds in the garden of our collective dialogue.
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