The Missing Puzzle Piece

You often aspire for a lot of things-not necessarily materialistic; love, friendship, relationships. It’s like a constant search hardwired in your DNA. Everything and anything that you see around, things that appear to be perfect, things that are almost perfect, except for that one missing piece which fits into the symmetry of nature. You would admire it, maybe even acquire it, settling on a compromise, hoping that with time you’ll learn to do deal with it and the almost perfect will transcend into the perfect. But a little ways down the road, you’ll realise, that the missing piece of the puzzle was not missing, but it never was there, and is something that cannot be done without. For the puzzle is still incomplete, and there’s no fun in that. For all that is there to admire, but for that void, the nothingness, that empty space, is all that you’ll ever see and yearn to fill. Every now and then, maybe you would look at the puzzle, distracted by the sense of beauty that allured you once, you’ld be happy enough so much as to forget about the void. But the negative force generated by that void, is sufficiently great enough to overcome that happiness eventually ^[1]. The love, the happiness will eventually descend into the nothingness. And the puzzle will crumble into a million pieces eventually.

You’ll feel angry, and sad that it had to happen this way, but maybe someday maybe you’ll remember it with no regrets, and only the happen moments will flash before your eyes, and that it was fun. Life is oddly ironical this way.

I often surmise these thoughts with this quote from one my favourite books, Gone with the Wind:

 

"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken--and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."

 

   

 

[1] This a practical physics result and has been verified experimentally. For any body which is perfectly symmetrical such as a hollow sphere, the integral force exerted at the centre by that missing piece is equal to the force exerted by the remaining body. It’s amazing how much physics actually holds true to aspects of life which otherwise can’t be quantified due to the absolute vagueness of idea.