My Love for Lego (A short essay)

I remember being maybe four of five years old and spending my days either napping or building puzzles. When I finished a puzzle, I had a signature celebration: the puzzle dance. I would jump up and down and wiggle my little arms and celebrate my success. There was something I loved about figuring out where everything had to go, putting it all together, and being able to enjoy (and dance around) the finished product.

Constructing things has always felt very natural to me. When I was introduced to Lego blocks, they quickly became my passion. Legos have dominated my life ever since. All of my friends loved Lego too, but they spent their time playing with completed kits when all I wanted to do was build. Sometimes I would even take the assembled kits apart and build them again.

Lego building became my main form of expression, and it has always been my favorite activity. When all of my friends stopped playing with their Legos, I kept on creating. The beauty of Lego is its infinite capabilities. Often times throughout my childhood I would see an everyday object and my brain would naturally race to figure out how exactly I would recreate whatever I was looking at in Lego. I strongly believe that no matter what the object, anything can be built out of Lego.

Legos have also stuck with me through tough times. When my family moved from New York City to Evanston, Illinois, gaining access to a Lego collection which had been in storage for years was the silver lining to an overall lousy experience. I didn’t know anybody or anything in the midwest, so I turned to my Lego collection and nine months later, I had a completed Lego Wrigley Field in my bedroom that measured almost three feet square.

Every jigsaw puzzle has a set finished product. After putting all the pieces where they need to go, you see exactly what was on the box when you bought the puzzle. There are only so many kinds of Lego bricks, so in many ways building lego is like solving a puzzle without a set finished product. There are no limits, no restrictions, and endless possibilities for creativity. And in case you were wondering, no; I don’t dance around my Lego creations.