Sudoku

You know what I like about sudoku?

It’s like, you’re filling in all the boxes with possible numbers, and it’s all so chaotic. You just think it’s never going to work itself out, it’s impossible. How can anything positively go anywhere? And you keep filling in all the boxes, going back and forth between hoping it will somehow work out and just doing what needs to be done because that’s what needs to be done.

And then, one little things changes. You realize that with two linear cells with 1 and 3, none of the other cells in that line can have a 1 or a 3. So you remove those possibilities, and then those changes affect other cells, and so on. And at the end, you’re just like this number goes here and that number goes there and then POOF. Everything is where it is supposed to be, and all possibilities have become realities and you, you clever person, have restored order to the universe.

Sudoku is one of the best metaphors for life I have ever known.