One of the most memorable books I ever came across this lifetime is a picture book by Shel Silverstein called "The Missing Piece Meets the Big O".It is about this blob-like creature (that looks like a slice of pizza) searching for another blob who is missing a piece - so that he can be part of a whole.
It is a very simple and touching pictorial piece about the blob's journey and disappointments during his search - until he meets a Big O.
Yes I know. The Big "O". I also thought the author meant to say that we will all be lost in life until we discover euphoria in sex. Unfortunately this is a kid's book so the 'Big O' is supposedly to symbolize a complete pizza pie with no missing pieces. But it's really up to interpretation ;)
This book was given to me by a good friend, KittyKat, the morning after a huge jungle rave party. How appropriate, I thought. I was brain-dead and haven't slept for 2 days when I read the first page. Then the second. And the third. It took me about 5 mins to finish the entire book.
Then I sat there and stoned. I think I actually got up and went to the loo, came back and have another go at it.
That's when I had an epiphany.
I don't know whether it was my state of mind at that time but the epiphany hit me quite badly. I felt so connected with this little blob - who is so desperately blobbing along life trying to find that something missing in his life. And like him, everything (eg. boys, alcohol, vices, hobbies, peanuts etc. ) that I tried using to fill that void is never long-lasting and never fail to dissapoint me in the long run.
Blob blob blobbing along....
This book teaches us to stop thinking that we are a missing piece of a puzzle. We are not created by God to fill up a void. So stop searching outside but within, and you will find that you are a complete whole person all by yourself. You can be a Big O.
And when you look for a partner, do not look for someone whom you think will 'complete' you. Look for another Big O so the two of you can roll along, side-by-side, through this journey we call life.
Roll, roll, rolling along.....
4 comments:
OHH!
You meant to say that the famous quote by Jerry Mcguire ("You complete me..") is crap??!
What next?? that Love at First Sight ("You had me at hello") is bullshit?!
NOOOOOooooooooo....
They are not all total crap; merely incomplete/incorrect.
"You complete me... with your bkt bintang condo and merz s-series"
"Lust at first sight"
"You had me at hello big (insert fav body parts)!"
Forgive me, Im a total cynic.....
Ah, your epiphany was different from mine and since I shared in yours by reading this, I thought it polite to trade :)
What dawned on me was that if I was complete (without a missing piece; what was deemed to be perfect), I would never be able to stop to smell the roses, chase butterflies or indulge in a sense of wonder. Yes, being complete would somehow simultaneously mean being incomplete.
The story also taught me to seek out the beauty of perfection in imperfection.
Defeatist? Perhaps. But empowering too.
Cheers!
Thanks for sharing Ico :) Got where ya coming from and I have to agree. Often during our search for perfection, we tend to get ourselves into all sorts of mischiefs where lessons can be learnt and friends can be made.
The journey is indeed as important, if not more, than the end-result.
If we do become the ideal Big O eventually, we have to remember to stop and smell the roses once in a while and not just roll on by.......
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