Life's BALANCING ACT

Life's BALANCING ACT

Life's BALANCING ACT.  Will this be a boring thread?  I hope NOT.  Because in life, everyone and everything in life needs a balance.  Whether it's about value VERSUS investing, saving VERSUS spending, receiving VERSUS  giving, demanding VERSUS acquiescing, being soft VERSUS being tough, being malleable VERSUS being agile and flexible, being short-term focused VERSUS long-term focused, being a hardliner VERSUS being non-compromising, OR it could be as trivial as maintaining healthy diet VERSUS accommodating junk food sparingly.  We can go on and on BUT this will be a very long list we CAN'T complete this interchange within today📗📙📘

Fact is, BALANCING ACT is a damn tricky thing because if you push yourself OR something to one side or area without being BALANCED, the weakest area will always hold you back.  That is the tricky thing that traps most of us many times in our life.  In fact, whenever BALANCING ACT is touched on, by default it tends to reference Work-Life BALANCE [but hey, WLB is just one tiny fraction of the whole pie of life.  In fact, no matter what's the most relevant topic on hand, the notion of BALANCE comes up almost all the time, with more questions than answers though📌📌📌

Again, the NOT so obvious truth here is that life's BALANCE seems like a mirage, the closer you think you get, the further away it goes.  And while many of us [that includes me many times [even till to date]] keep on aiming for it, finding the BALANCE seems so elusive.  Maybe you would feel disappointed because that's HOW most people initially react WHEN you perceive that you're NOT having the right OR optimized BALANCE.  BUT in research studies by experts, they state that BALANCE is NOT something we can get.  Instead, it is a STATE OF MIND.  It's the realization that life is NOT stable BUT in constant motion💧💧💧

In layman's terms, the experts are telling us that as our life is in a constant motion, this is akin to us riding a bicycle.  BUT again, WHAT confuses many of us is that much as we all want a BALANCED life, why does BALANCE feel like an elusive concept.  The paradox of BALANCE is that, the more we pursue it, the more things seem to fall apart.  Our worries tend to make us worry more.  Even from a semantics perspective, the word 'BALANCE' is both a noun and a verb.  So, this should NOT surprise us as we struggle to find it💦💦💦

Our takeaway:  BALANCE is bringing things in harmony and it's NOT something that you can get BUT something that you continually do on a consistent basis.  You could have effectively BALANCED your time between work life, personal life and social life the past month, NOT until when your other circle of friends would cajole you to join them in their social forays [like all the booze and alcohol] and at that point, your seemingly BALANCED life would reset immediately and that throws you back to square one.  In truth, our BALANCING ACT stretches throughout our lifetime💥💥💥