Balance

I have been thinking about this since our meeting and I thought that balance in our life is never truly achieved forever. I have had times in my life where I have had everything figured out and balanced very nicely. I have also had moments where I am not even close to balance.
  I guess I am learning that we always strive for balance in our lives and we sometimes achieve it, but having balance in our lives can be a fragile thing. Just one little thing off kilter can completely put us off balance. I think in those moments is when you see a test of our adaptability to our situation and we see if we can return to balance. A huge thing I realized is that sometimes what used to be a balanced life for us is no longer valid and we must re-adjust our scales to fit our new lives; to once again achieve balance.
   I find it weird that if I ever achieved balance and then kept it for the rest of my life; I am not sure if I would enjoy it. I know I would like it for awhile, but is perfect balance the best? I don't think anyone can answer that question because I don't think anyone has ever achieved perfect balance. I believe a lot of people have had great balance for a period of time, but not forever. Oddly enough without imbalance there would be no such thing as balanced.
  So I guess you could say I believe that the real lesson behind trying to achieve balance is developing skills to adapt to life always.


Sifu Langner