Not a story exactly, but more of just me talking about a game (the treasured possession), and how it effects me, and what it represents in my mind.

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You may have heard of Flow Free- or maybe you’ve even played it before. I just recently reinstalled the app on my phone, and as I was playing it earlier today, I though of something.

In the game, you have to fill the board completely, leaving no squares empty. You start out with about 6 colors, and they all have their own path of travel to get to their match. In the end, you clear the level, by matching all the colors, and filling the board.

As you progress through the levels, you gain more colors, and bigger boards, harder levels. You have to find the path of travel, match the colors, and fill all the squares.

Flow is like your brain. Full of different colors, thoughts, all wanting to be matched. All the squares need to be filled, the board needs to be organized. And so does your brain.

Each color represents a thought, an idea, and while that can all seem overwhelming at first, they all have a path of travel, and there’s always a solution. The colors and organized, and matched with their pair, and your thoughts are organized, in the intricate pattern that maybe only you understand.

You gain more colors in Flow, just like how you gain more thoughts.

At times, after you sort the board, maybe one color seems more overpowering than the others. Maybe that orange had to make a full loop around the board, and now it looks like too much. But that had to happen for all the other colors to fit.

Sometimes one singular thought seems like too much at times, and it seems to overpower everything, taking over your mind.

Sometimes we just have to take a step back, take a deep breath, and say “Yes. I understand that this may seem overpowering at the moment, but everything fits perfectly.”

All the dots at the beginning at the same size, and they have the same value. It’s just the path of travel that gives them the moment to stand out.

All your thoughts start out the same, but as you organize them, you will come to see and notice which ones are more important at the moment. Which ones you should focus on, and which ones can wait.

And remember, the board changes each time. Orange isn’t always going to be the overpowering color in this puzzle.

The mind is complicated and complex, but we just have to embrace it, working one step at a time.

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Sorry- this made more sense in my head, so I would like to apologize if it just sounds like gibberish written out here.