What is Balance?
When you look at it from a ten thousand foot perspective, the vision changes. If you spend 12 hours in one day playing games and 12 hours the next day working hard on a project, is that balance? What role do the multiple facets of your life play in balance and how do the external pressures factor into this idea of balance? Is balance about how you feel or about how the people in your life feel about you and about what you are doing?
When I think about living a balanced life it is definitely a conversation rife with questions. I am not feeling like I live a life in balance. I feel like I have too much to do and all I want to do is take time off and play games. I feel like walls are closing in on me and I need to sacrifice things and the only thing I ever sacrifice is myself. I feel like nobody is less important in my life than myself, but that doesn’t jibe with the amount of time I spend playing games and calling it self-care. I feel like I am breaking the things that matter most in my life and carrying anger that should not rightfully exist.
I feel like shutting down. Constantly.
Nothing there feels like balance. It feels like me falling off a cliff.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Panicked travelers hear a new message from airports: Don’t get here so early” Cue spit take.