Brickset 7623

If life is like a LEGO Indiana Jones Temple Escape set, then friends are the random LEGO Harry Potter, LEGO Atlantis, and LEGO CITY pieces that are incorporated into the build.

The directions may show a specific order to create the masterpiece, but sometimes you add more. It just happens. You come across the tiny Marauder's Map, those coins from Atlantis, or even an average 2 by 4 gray piece originally for a CITY police car and you see how they work, how they add to the set or help complete it. That map works to make the story, give Indy more of an edge in your little LEGO version of Raiders. The coins add just that perfect bit of shimmer and luxe and look so good next to the golden head idol. The plain gray brick finishes the cave entrance and makes it a more complete archway.

All of these items made the set better. That is how friends are. You have your little Indiana Jones life and they have their Harry Potter one, but you are both LEGOs so you have the capacity to fit together. (There are of course LEGO Alien pieces that just DON'T fit into your Indy world [Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls does not count. Period.]).

I am looking for a certain Page 5 piece to finish the puzzle/maze floor so Indy won't get shot by poison darts. This person is my someday partner, my lifelong fit. I have to try and remember to not limit this unknown person to a 2 by 2 flat beige piece. They might be a clear-orange flame from a LEGO Castle dragon set. Something that would make the dart-room that much cooler.

How is it that I can see friends and companions as additive parts to my life adventure but simultaneously view this imaginary future relationship as a void only to be filled in a specific and even restrictive Page 5 format? If I am more open to the incorporative mindset will that make this the best version of Brickset 7623 or will I mess it up and want to smash it?