Not everything is significant.

Some things, like dust, just exist. And some things we do fall into that category too. They have no impact on the world. We all shed a lot of dead skin during a lifetime.

I’m going to blow the songwriters trumpet here though. A song is significant. It matters. It adds something of substance to the universe. It has an effect.

And now to snatch that trumpet away (hopefully to be returned) before it has barely parped a parp…

…because writing a song is like producing a single piece of a universal jigsaw. On it’s own it is clearly “something”. It is clearly significant, and has a place in the Big Picture. But it is very hard to say what part that is. And the songwriter (none of us) is putting the jigsaw together anyway.

Some pieces of the jigsaw, some of our songs, might merely represent another piece of the endless blue sky. Good luck with THOSE pieces Mrs Jigsaw Puzzler! They are all, never-the-less, a necessary part of the whole.

Other pieces might have more recognisable features. Pieces that She will know straight away where to place. Perhaps the head and wings of a soaring eagle that fits nicely onto the backend of another piece. Those are the songs we really want to write, of course. Those are the significant actions we want (or possibly our egos want) to add to the world.

Anyway, these acts of significance, whether they be songs, or moments of kindness, a job well done, or anything that matters … though they be tiny … well, they really do matter.

We are obviously not even going to see the final jigsaw. If it ever is final. But, heavens above and hell below, these sometimes feeble attempts to make or do something beautiful are each, in their own way, a definitive part of the whole.

So why not choose, and carry on choosing, as far as we are able, to produce pieces of significance in our lives. Pieces that The Jigsaw Puzzler can use.