It is not healthy to write a post with a NEW WANT every day.
BUT I WANT TO DO A JIGSAW PUZZLE NOWWWWWW!!!
No this is not random. I have been doing and love doing jigsaw puzzles since I was young, like at the age of 4 or 5.
One of my childhood hobbies.
I remember my Dad bought me a set of jigsaw puzzle when I was at that age, it was a Doraemon puzzle. I can remember it so well cos I did that puzzle over and over again for many times.
Dad taught me how to do it.
Ever since, I have completed god-knows-how-many jigsaw puzzles.
And everytime I completed one, I would challenge myself to a more difficult one.
So the number of pieces goes up from 60 to 80 to 100 to 200 to 300 etc.
Sometimes when I love one jigsaw puzzle too much, I will tend to complete the puzzle, destroy it, and then do it all over again.
I will time myself, to make sure that I can do it faster and faster, beating my own record.
When you are the only child, you gotta play with and against yourself I guess? -.-
(Oh that is another very interesting story haha. Imagine I made up stories to make my left hand fight with my right hand? Something like that. Used to be super imaginative when I was a kid, never would I get bored even when alone.)
Jigsaw puzzles are too easy for me.
Especially those with cartoon images and with high contrast of colours, they didnt even require me to think.
I have not played with jigsaw puzzles for 10 freaking years.
The last one that I did was... I cant remember how big... 1000 pieces or more?
It took me three days to complete.
I framed it up.
When I was young, my Dad always help me to glue my jigsaw on a piece of cardboard and let me paste them on the wall or keep them.
When I was at the age of about 8, I did a Dragon Ball jigsaw puzzle that was about 500 pieces.
Oh you have no idea how I loved Dragon Ball when I was a kid.
I hang that puzzle on the wall next to my bed (:
I always thought that the joy of doing a jigsaw puzzle is the process of doing it.
So naturally I am finding it so ridiculous that people are selling completed jigsaw puzzles online and there are actually people buying them.
Are they out of their mind?
What then is the difference of buying a picture/painting to doing that?
After I have completed my jigsaw puzzle, I would stand back and admire my hardwork, always smile out of satisfaction and have a sense of strong accomplishment.
Cos I know that bit by bit (literally), I made it happen.
I dont know if doing jigsaw puzzles can teach anyone any life lessons.
But I have learned a lot.
Paying attention to small details, yet never lose sight on the big picture.
Slowly and patiently, you will try to fit every unrelated details into your frame and make something spectacular out of what you have.
What I learned shape how I think.
Even up till today, whenever I am planning anything, it is so natural for me to draw up a plan, to roughly know what I want the whole thing to be.
Then I fill in the details. And I pay a lot of attention to details. A LOT.
What are the things to get. What are the things I need to do. If this or that happens, what would I do?
I would think to the smallest details you could imagine, just to make sure that things can run smoothly.
I love details. Details are the most important. Sometimes, it is smallest detail that tend to make the most difference to things.
Perhaps that is the life lesson that my Dad wanted me to learn.
And of course doing jigsaw puzzles is good for the mind. But since I am not really the intelligent kind, I shall not discuss on that.
It's been too long since I have done a jigsaw puzzle.
It's a good hobby, I should have never given it up.
Never too late to pick it up again (:
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