Balance

[puppetmaker]

Balance is important. It is one of the reasons we don’t fall over every time we get up or walk. A lack of balance can be rather annoying.

There is a lot of talk on various websites and books about having balance in one’s life. A balance between work and leisure time. A balance between family and work. A balance within families. Balancing the books. Balancing one’s life.

Makes me feel like I am on a perpetual tightrope without the balance pole to help.

I have discovered over the years finding balance is not easy but it is necessary.

Too much either way and you fall or fail to maintain balance.

So life is a balancing act between what you need to do and what you want to do. Between that which must be done now and that which it would be a good idea to do it sometime soon and that which you will eventually get around to.

It is not an easy task and everyone does fall down at some point. The trick is to get back up on the rope and go again. I know when I am not feeling at my best and I know I have fallen off, it can be hard to get things going back to a center point. But I can recognize that and deal with it.

Yesterday was the first day since I got back home that I felt at all balanced. I am going to take that momentum and move myself forward from task to task keeping my balance going.

I am grateful for things that allow balance.