Time To Play

I build it, so I can tear it apart.
I unravel it, so I can recreate it.
I solve it, so I can forget all that I have learned.

Puzzling, or at least that way I puzzle - which is taking as much joy in unraveling my puzzle as I did in putting it together - is a great analogy to life. It's a cycle of build and destroy, of life and death, of up and down.
Just like the Indian mandala, destroying a puzzle we worked on for hours, or days, or even months... is a great practice in challenging our perfectionism. As children, we loved this practice. Realizing that things don't last - didn't make us despair, but in fact we rejoiced in it, we PLAYED. Back then, in the sandbox, it was easy for us to understand that it's all a game, all invented, and life is as fickle as the weather: Always changing, always moving, and always ends. Playing the games we played when we were children is a great reminder of what we lost, and an opportunity to regain the wisdom we came unto the world with. The wisdom of PLAY.