Life is like a Rubik's Cube

Life is like a Rubik's Cube. Just think about it for a second........Full of colour and confusion and challenges. Most of the time life isn't perfect; at least mine isn't. Most of the time its all over the map. The colours are everywhere, and most of the time I have no idea how to start working things out.

Sometimes it seems like things are coming together. Sometimes I can get a whole side of the Rubik's Cube the same colour, without even knowing what to do. There are people out there, and I'm sometimes one of them, who look and act like they've got it all figured out. Sometimes they're very convincing, but most of the time they're only showing you one side, the one side that they've somehow put together for a moment. Usually the rest of them is a mess, a very colourful mess.

Anyone who knows how to do a Rubik's Cube will tell you that once you've solved the white side, you'll feel quite proud of yourself, but you have to continue with the following steps, which includes mixing up the white side again temporarily. Not even one part of our lives can stay perfect and orderly for any length of time before it has to get messed up again. Sometimes moving forwards feels like going backwards. Sometimes making amends feels like just opening up old wounds. Sometimes breaking up makes you feel like the last chapter of your life was a waste of time. But if someone is in control of your life who knows what they're doing, then eventually it will all work out in the end.

Sure, there's an easy way out, a quick fix, a short-cut. You could always peel all the stickers off the Rubik's Cube and make it look like you solved it. But that's not the way life was designed to be. Besides, the stickers will all lose their stickiness, you'll lose all the colours and all you will be left with is black.

So why don't you let someone else be in control. You'll be in for a lot of ups and downs. There will be times when things are really looking good, and there will be times when you'll be angry and confused because things seem worse than ever and you don't see how this could possibly be working towards something better. You can not see the master plan. And so sometimes you will rebel against the plan, and take steps of your own that may seem to move you in the right direction, but eventually you get stuck, and it takes longer for things to work out. But things will always work out in the end. When the colours all line up and order is restored, you will look back and see how each step was absolutely essential. And although there are multiple ways to solve the "problem" of life, you couldn't have figured out any of them alone. Thank God you're not expected to.

Both Sides of Me were pretty Optimistic Today

So this is how the internal conversation I had with myself today went as I was sitting in a kiddie pool and running with 3 yr olds through a sprinkler in 30 plus degree weather.....

Optimist: This is the life. How great is this!?
Pessimist: meh
Optimist: Seriously? Okay, what could be better than this?
Pessimist: Crashing through the waves on some tropical island with some ridiculously good looking boy, an unlimited supply of peanut M&Ms, and a castle to sleep in at night.
Optimist: ........
Pessimist: You're right, that wasn't really fair. Sorry
Optimist: Okay what is the second best way you can think of spending your day?
Pessimist: ........
Optimist: ???
Pessimist: Okay fine, probably this.
Optimist: :)