In my spare time, I do competitive speed puzzling contests (yes, this is a real thing!) and a few months ago I saw Facebook ads for puzzles that are QR codes you can scan and win up to $1mil , with a number of other high value prizes ($100k, $500k, etc) and every puzzle wins at least $1. So I bought one for me and one for my daughter. We began the first one about two months ago and it was ridiculously challenging. Like '30 pieces took me 5 hours to place' type of challenging. I recently found out that the challenge is closing in six weeks so if I was going to finish it, I needed to get cracking.
While I could make this post all about the puzzle, lets weave this together with the twin flame journey. I was going for a walk in the park, which is where I do most of my journey progression type of thinking, and all of the sudden I saw that puzzle as a representation of my twin flame journey and the pieces started to click into place (bad pun?). I was initially drawn to the puzzle because it looked challenging and fun, and there was the chance of a life changing reward for some lucky people. I started out trying to assemble the puzzle in a way that had always worked for me in the past, only this time it seemed to be so much harder. I didn't have a picture of the final image. I knew generically what QR codes look like, and I even looked it up online to see if other people had posted their final pictures that I could go off of. It was dead ends, however, because no one's puzzle was the exact same image or cut as mine. I would start by looking at their 4 corners, and they were not the same as mine. I watched some videos of strategies and came up empty handed. And to further frustrate me, some of the pieces fit together, but were not meant to go together. The image clearly didn't match up. And others seemed like the image didn't match up but evidently the color change on the QR code happened at precisely the cut point between the pieces, so they did in fact go together.
Does this sound familiar? Desperately searching for answers, guides, roadmaps, something that would give you direction. Or at least a picture of what this twin flame journey is "supposed" to look like in the end. Why the heck won't the manufacturer (or for twins, the universe) give you more to go on than a vague mental idea of what a QR code looks like?
I was so close to just throwing out the whole stupid puzzle. What are the chances it was a million dollar winner anyway? I was annoyed and not enjoying the process of assembling this one at all. It was terrible and felt like a chore, not something I "wanted" to do. My daughter and I even joked about lighting the stupid thing on fire, but that day at the park when it dawned on me that this puzzle was exactly how I was struggling on my twin flame journey, I doubled down on my commitment to get it done. I wasn't going to throw in the towel because it was difficult or because the assembly process wasn't how I thought it should be. I just needed a new outlook and new resolve.
Ultimately I came across a YouTube channel that had a series of videos about how to solve this puzzle. I watched a handful of them and the one that made a world of difference was when he was talking about sorting the pieces by orientation (there were, unfortunately, only two shapes of pieces on this, unlike many puzzle cuts that have lots of shapes) and knowing the color progression of the shadow part of the code.
On our twin flame journey, everyone's method for assembly will be different. Not right or wrong, but different. Everyone's final picture will be a little bit different (evidently the first batch of these puzzles had lots of piece shapes and a rainbow background. Really?!). The end result when you scan your code will be different.
I only won $1 with my code, but I don't feel like it was a waste. I learned new techniques I can use for other puzzles, and we still have my daughter's to get done in about five weeks' time. While I don't think I'll be doing this puzzle over and over again, I have showed myself that I could do this. I'm not going to be left wondering what I may have won if I hadn't given up.
Your twin flame journey may feel like an insurmountable feat, with obstacle after obstacle, but hang in there. The picture may not be the typical beautiful sunset, cute animals, or regal buildings that you usually see, but the code you create is unique and amazing in it's own right, regardless of the prize at the other end of the scan.
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