When We Are Ready

One evening, my then seven-year-old nephew was putting together some Lego pieces and despite how tall I am, he seemed to have no clue that I was standing at the door.  He wrinkled his forehead and squinted to focus better on the lego pieces which were in variety of colors. I interrupted the occasion and asked what he was doing, and he answered he was making a Startrek car; as a kid, I was never into Startrek like many of my male cohorts, rather I spent most of my time either out door picking at flowers or watching a new episode of Pokémon.  My nephew was having a difficult time putting a green square lego piece together with the wheel piece that was provided in the Lego box.  I walked near where he was standing and gave my hands to show I could help him but he shrugged and turned his back to me, refusing the help that he definitely needed.  Ten minutes later he walked out the play room with a wide grin on his small frame face and started to laugh hysterically.  When I looked at what he had in his hands, there existed a full model Startrek car. My nephew did it: he was able to connect the two Lego pieces that he was having such a difficult time with ten minutes earlier without the help of anyone.

There will come a time in our lives where certain situations do not make any sense and the more we dive into it and try to see the answer, the more confused we are.  One day however, everything seems to make sense and we are able to uncover the mystery that has been torturing us for the past days or even months.  Like my little nephew, we are all of the sudden fill with joy and excitement knowing that we uncover something and the best feeling comes when we did not need the help from anyone. The feeling is unlike anything that we know and it is one of the best thought ever, to know we made it, and that we accomplish something.  Sometimes, a problem might take years for us to uncover and for us to see the answer to it but all we need to do is focus on getting to where our goal is, because it will come. When we get it, when we understand it, the world seems to be full of opportunities that we could ever imagine. It will take time but patience always pay off and leads us to a better place than where we once were.