Hello.
This week I’m going to share a puzzle experience that I think is going to be very good for you.
I consider myself a very good riddler. I could do a thousand-piece puzzle in a few days. When I took the most recent puzzle out of my pile, it was a TUGH puzzle. I didn’t realize how hard it was until we started. I should have known.
Avocado Park by Gibsons
I love this puzzle. That was my first Gibsons puzzle. I like the feeling of the pieces and fitting, and that image is reliable. I couldn’t resist all the cute little butterfish eating fries, holding hands and practicing. The riddle makes me laugh.
It took me about nine days to make this puzzle. I think it’ll take weeks. In the grand plot of anything, there is not much time. But I was excited. I was staring at the pile of glistening puzzles waiting to be completed and I put a lot of pressure on myself to get one of the next things. There was a rush coming from finishing one to get one next, and I forgot the joy of the real puzzle process.
When I was young, we often had to wait a week to watch the next episode of a comedy film. Now we can skip a season (or sixteen – I am looking at you, Mr Grey’s Anatomy). We have to get things done quickly and we’re sad because they’re over, just waiting for the next thing that’s available to us.
I asked online:
I can usually do a thousand-piece puzzle in a few days. I’m doing a tough job and it takes me longer. I feel tense as if I need to end it quickly to get to the next puzzle. Isn’t that weird? Does anyone else have this problem? Thank you.
I realize how normal I am! We love our puzzles, but we put pressure on ourselves, or we get sick of looking at the image and we want to move on to the next picture. Once we start a riddle, we have to finish it. Some people do some at the same time so they always have the shape of a new puzzle.
On the other hand, if stressed, it robs us of joy. I have to take my advice and remind myself that this is not a race, and it doesn’t matter how long it takes to finish. I’m not going anywhere. It will continue to grow, and there will be no date of the puzzle.
All this is about, I have the riddle in my Avocado Park ready to stick and hang up – to remind me of this lesson and also because there’s no way I’m going to remove it.
This is the best addiction I could get.