Stasis

When I went for a run this afternoon, the temperature outside was in that perfect place of being neither cold nor hot. The body feels as if it's in a perfect state, almost like the weightlessness of being in water. This experience got me thinking about a topic that has always interested me, the equilibrium of life. In the small stuff and the big stuff, each day and over a lifetime, it seems we are in a constant struggle to find and maintain balance in everything we are, everything we do.

Some of us work too much, eat too much, exercise too much. Some too little. Relationships with people, possessions, technology, money and God can be out of balance. The balance of past, present and future; mind, body and spirit. There is rich and poor, best and worst, important and forgotten in everything all the time. We are inundated with countless dichotomies, ways to find them and ways to disrupt them.

Even in our quest to find balance in our lives there is inherent inequity. Some struggle with imbalances that are big and bold while others are more nuanced and complicated. Some people appear outwardly to come easily to balance, while others struggle publicly over the course of a lifetime. Sometimes we see imbalance in others before they do and vice versa. Some seem to front load on the yin without a whole lot of yang. 

Drive or walk? Fries or salad? Water or wine? Call or text? Cash or credit? Early or late? Truth or fiction? Words or silence? Give or take? Love or hate? Admit or deny? And sometimes simply, yes or no?

When do we seek help for an imbalance? When does a means of escape become an addiction? When do the scales finally tip?

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings on this topic, too many for one post. Are other people as interested in and fascinated by this as I am? This is definitely a subject I would like to address again here, I just need to decide what and when.