Life Is Akin To Riding Bicycles

In Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard, he said: Life Is Akin To Bicycles.  To keep your balance, you must keep moving.  Well said.  BUT if I will play devil's advocate, I'll make a flawed statement that if I do ground to a halt, I WON'T get off-balanced.  Oh Oh Oh, really dude?  For clarity, please DON'T take getting 'offbalanced' literally because in life, that could be translated to a thousand perspectives.  LIKE getting stuck.  LIKE being stalled.  LIKE being off-tracked.  LIKE being out of your roadmap.  LIKE being ejected out from your parachute.  LIKE being thrown out in limbo.  LIKE being in a state of stupor WHERE you end up as neither here NOR there.  WHEREAS, there should be NO argument that if you keep moving in life, you will be literally moving, progressing, moving forward and even if you do stumble, you will end rising and picking up the pieces📗📙📘

So, let's go back to Albert Einstein.  WHY was he widely quoted that LIFE IS LIKE RIDING A BICYCLE.  BUT whether we dissect this literally OR figuratively, YES, we will end up with the same subset of conclusions that have been proven throughout mankind's existence.  Much as bicycles need and expect us to keep and maintain that balance as we progressively move on, that exactly WHAT is all about.  Nothing in life is tilted on one flank, just on one side.  In each of the facets of our life, even if we hate it, we got to do that BALANCING ACT many times over❎❎❎

Allow me to do a random sampling of my countless episodes of BALANCING ACTs.  WHEN I was still in the academe, I had to BALANCE my academic and co-curricular activities.  WHEN I decided to get into the workforce, I had to BALANCE my eagerness versus my 'rawness' as a worker.  WHEN I took that quantum leap of exploring career opportunities way beyond my comfort zone, much as I was hard pressed, I was constrained to BALANCE out my thirst for opportunities versus the risks down the road.  And since risks are like land mines peppered incognito in the roads we thread, the appropriate steps I did was to mitigate the risks.  A few times, I was unable to mitigate the risks [and guess WHAT, yes I fell flat on my face those times] BUT it's part of our life realizations, seriously💚💛💜

At times, I would come across someone questioning that there is NO truth to the balancing acts in life.  BUT dude, we do need to prioritize , make boundaries, and even set aside time for each plate that we are spinning.  BUT it happens sometimes that we do feel exhausted, drained to be precise, and at times quite overwhelmed that we DON'T know HOW we're going to spin even a couple of those plates.  That explains WHY we need to focus on WHERE our help and strength come from.  And each time we trek out in those challenging roads of our life, we do get back into the swing of life and ended up catching up.  And it can be quite overwhelming once we look back at our To-Do List plus squeezing in a couple of 'surfs' BUT we just CAN'T let these things crowd out even as all our plates we are spinning would fall off-track💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  Multiple lessons I learnt the hard way many times in life can all be rolled for brevity and that is, let us be cautious enough to avoid stupid mistakes, prevent burnout, and maintain a margin of safety and comfort in life.  Daring enough to bet on ourselves, to do the things we would regret leaving undone, and to be willing to be uncomfortable in the short-term so we can learn and grow in the long-term.  YES YES yow, LIFE IS AKIN TO RIDING BICYCLES😌😌😌