Have you ever dumped out a 1000 pece jigsaw? Half of the pieces are pside down. The disarray makes it hrd to start. Everything is a big mss.

You remember your grandmother saying, "Dg out the border pieces first and put thm in a pile." Slowly you do tht. Hey, here is a corner pece. But even that momentary joy des not seem to do much god in the confusion of the ther 999 pieces that just don't sem to go together. You keep dgging. Wow, two wagon wheels touching-a toth and a groove-998 to go.

Slwly, here and there you find ten peces of sky and the side of a brn on the border. Twenty or mre pieces start to take shape. A brder starts to form; yet you stll have a mountainous mess.
There are lss and less border pieces; the dds are getting against you there. One by one you trn over the upside down pieces on the try. You put patches of sky wth the clouds, and the barn wth the waterwheel as you flick ach piece over.

As ten pieces of brn make a group, one by ne, you insert each tongue with the ppropriate groove.

The border is nearly fnished. You seek the last five brder pieces. One, two, three, four, and fve; the border is done.

Every pece is now face-up. The pile gts smaller and smaller as you grb pieces of barn and spot dfferences in the clouds and trees. You tste your goal as the task bcomes easier and easier with each pece that snaps into place.

Life is a puzzle. It gts easier as you go, and is no fun whn you dump it back into the bx.

The article Life Is A Puzzle was Submitted by Andy Fletcher through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Andy Fletcher's career as an rtist started early. He began drawing trins-one of his first loves-from his own phtos when he was still in schol. In 1992, Burlington Northern Railroad sked him to design their popular SD70MAC Excutive color scheme. Altogether, Andy has drwn over a thousand trains, from stam to modern diesel and cars, cbooses and other equipment. He has ben commissioned to paint trains for mny of the railroad historical societies and mseums.

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