A Piece Offering

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way." - Virginia Woolf

The most important pieces in our lives are people. As we travel down the road of life, we encounter people that are both insignificant and significant. The art of deciding which kind of people they are to us is one that must be lived to be learned. We learn as we get older based on our life experiences and how our pieces from our past fit into our lives. Often, we are not given the option to decide the significance of those that come our way. Some people are just apart of our destiny. It is very easy sometimes to overlook a person that appears out of, what seems like, nowhere. Fate is perhaps too gentle with their pushing, so we ignore this piece for others that we think are significant. Life is about timing. Maybe sometimes a person comes our way before we are ready for them, so we cast them aside as commonplace instead. They become significant to us when the timing is right.

Perhaps people's significance to us can shift  through life depending on our experiences and the others surrounding us. We may not have control on which pieces come into our lives, or what happens to us; however we certainly have control on what we do once they arrive. We have the choice to make them apart of our lives, or to ignore their presence. It is best to take advantage of all of our pieces, as Virginia Woolf points out. To make sure we don't miss out on anyone, everyone should be given the equal chance to be a significant part of your path. Fortune will sometimes lead the pieces to show us our path has a few different options to consider. It is hard not to stare so hard down one path and maybe miss out on the path right under our noses.

We don't always have to be the one doing the arranging either though. It is also important to allow ourselves to be arranged into someone's life. Our own piece offering can be just as scary as opening up to someone new to accept their piece placement into our worlds. What if they don't want us in their arrangement? What if the pieces don't fit like you thought they would? There is no way to tell. You just have to go with it. Every piece will find it's place. Besides, arranging is nothing more than living. That's the fun part, right?