Crusoe in South East Asia

Just found out if you google DJ Crusoe my blog is the first to appear. Awesome! And now for some rambling thoughts….

Sometimes I feel like my life is a jig saw puzzle and I’m trying to work out how to fit all the pieces in. Each piece placed into the jig-saw represents a choice I’ve made, for example to study or not to study. To go out and party or to get an early night. Recently, I’ve realised for the last 2 years I’ve been trying to fit the pieces in with a hammer. Now, this jig saw puzzle is very special as the final picture hasn’t been set yet and depends on how I fit the individual pieces. I’m starting to realise that to do well at this puzzle I’ve got to think carefully about the picture that I’m aiming for and think carefully about each individual ‘piece’ that I’m putting in. Yeh, thats right, my life is a game.

Occasionally bad things happen and the pieces that I’ve struggled to carefully fit get shaken and the whole thing falls to bits. Starting the new academic year I aim to be more careful about what bits I chose to add, and the ones I do chose to put in, I’ll put in very carefully. Also, when something comes to shake the table on which my jig saw stands, I’m going to hold onto it and make sure its stable….

My trip to South East Asia represented completing a section of my Jigsaw, and, just like finishing a section of a Jigsaw, made it easier for me to see how to finish off the rest of the Jigsaw. Now don’t get me wrong….my Jigsaw is far from complete (I hope) but little by little. Rome wasn’t built in a day!

Congratulations if you stayed with me through that. Ok…enough talking in metaphors…..

I still haven’t donated to the orphanage I promised to. Don’t let me forget….