My little brother, James, got a Rubix Cube for his birthday. Ever since then we have been trying to solve it, unsuccessfully. Getting one face of the cube we have down pat, but getting the whole thing, that's not so simple.
I'm sitting there, switching my gaze from the colorful cube to the illuminated computer screen with the cheats I need to solve the puzzle, and I still can't solve this thing. I manage to get a third of the way there, maybe two thirds, and then I turn one side the wrong way, and I mess the whole thing up so bad that I have to start over.
I realize, this little Rubix Cube here represents people so well. As soon as you think you have someone figured out, you have solved that one face, you learn that there is a new side to him or her. Solving this new side will mess up the side you have already figured out.
And if there was a cheat sheet for life, would it really work? I know that the Rubix Cube cheat sheets I have found online are easily mistaken. I have been past halfway, past two thirds of the way, at least five times, and I manage to mess up again. Life isn't a little Rubix Cube, it doesn't have just six sides. A cheat sheet for life would have to be twice the size of the entire universe, and very easily mistaken. Life has an infinitive number of sides. Where two Rubix Cubes are a like, no two lives are even remotely alike.
It is possible to solve the Rubix Cube though. Is it possible to solve another human being? In those rare occasions where the amateur Rubix Cuber is able to complete all six sides, what does this represent in real life?
Do all six sides match up to true love? The perfect friendship? Or something no human has been able to accomplish?