LIFE IN A RUBIK'S CUBE (Getting it wrong is not always amiss)



A Rubik's Cube
Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and Professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, on a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours: white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. The goal is to arrange each of the 6 faces of the cube with matching colours. For example, side 1 (all green), side 2 (all blue), side 3 (all red), side 4 (all white), side 5 (all orange), side 6 (all yellow). You have to do this by only ‘shifting’ the squared colours that make up the cube.
If you have never tried solving this interestingly frustrating puzzle, please do😊. What usually makes people give up it is not because they never seem to match the colours, they do many times. The problem is when one side looks perfect (matching colours), then you realize all the other sides are not. This means you have to reshuffle what you created at first.
It’s like demolishing a house you built for yourself or giving your favourite food to a gluttonous friend, annoying! That’s the word. You literarily now have to misarrange the perfect colours in order to rearrange in such a way all sides also have perfect colours.

Life is like a Rubik’s cube sometimes. It is not always important you get it right at all time. The truth is nobody does, can and will, so take it easy on yourself. The point is that we get it wrong to get it right. It is more important to get it right at the right time, not all the time. I have never heard of a mathematics genius who never arrived at a wrong answer all his life. Trying to solve a mathematical problem with the protruding fear of ‘I don’t want to get it wrong’ will eventually make you ‘get it wrong’. An open mind always help, try new things and be ready to fail. The fear of failing kept many people from trying things they would have actually succeeded in. I’m elated Thomas Edison knew life is like a Rubik’s cube’, so he could proudly say he didn’t fail 999 times, he only learnt 999 new ways to not light a bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

Just the way we have to rearrange even the side of the cube that already has matching colours in order make others also perfect, sacrifices are part and parcel of our existence. Every day we have to give something to make another thing exist. Every second we have to give off carbondioxide to let oxygen in. This same pattern of ‘give & take’ makes it expedient at some points in our lives to face the ‘mess up’ and the ‘breakups’, it is you giving and life taking from you but the aim is not to break you down, rather to refine you like a tortured rubik’s cube. You only cried too hard to see the new cloud of favour and the tears only washed away the particles that crowded your lens and blurred you from seeing –THERE IS ALWAYS A SOLUTION TO EVERY PUZZLE (even Rubik’s Cube).

Many times the answer we seek are not in others, but ourselves. It may take time to find it but your problems already have an answer. Getting it wrong is not always amiss. The accidents and coincidences (as you assume) in your life are not always repercussions for any evil you did or anticipate to do, there is a possibility they are just the mismatched colours of the Rubik’s cube and though impossible at first to be solvable, you can match them if you let every colour play its role well. Let the white and the black keys of the piano of life play their parts, they will create a melodious sound if you use them well. Your right and your wrongs are useful. I know we are afraid to make mistakes but they form our experiences. Don’t make avoidable mistakes and don’t give up because they came.
Never believe any thought that you are ‘DISABLED’. Interestingly, we live in a world that has abbreviated everything include ‘lyf’😐. But hey! they said ‘DISABILITY?’ but could it be they were trying to spell ‘THIS ABILITY’.
They said ‘DISAPPOINTMENT?’ or could it also be that they meant ‘THIS APPOINTMENT’
You think you were ‘DISGRACED’? You were just ‘THIS’ Graced.

It’s okay that we always want to get it right all the time. But whenever you give your best and the response is ‘not enough’, your best actually was enough but your faith need to be more than enough. We live in Rubik’s cube and sometimes the seemingly ‘wrong’ things in our lives are there to make the others ‘right’. Just promise me you will never stop trying, no one who successfully solved this ancient intellectual puzzle quit before victory.


Roses have thorns, true, but I am gladder that thorns have roses💖. Your thorns have roses. They are disguised in drops of beauty which your sight, blurred by the tears you still cry has made you unable to see. Wipe the tears off your eyes, lest you get too watery😭 to see that a rainbow has appeared as a sign of a bright day.

By Elizabeth Ewudiwa

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