Staying on the Tight-rope

A bead of sweat forms at your brow line. You cannot move to wipe it...any sudden movement and you plummet 9 feet to the ground. You step gingerly ahead, hands protruding as eagle wings, keeping you in balance. Balance, that is the key.

Life is like walking a tight rope. 

For a person's life to go smoothly, everything has to be in balance: diet, friendships, time. etc. Everything must work smoothly and in harmony. Any slight skewing from the balanced proportion and everything comes tumbling down. If you spend too much time with one friend, others in your life feel shorted.  If your diet gets out of balance, you balloon up like a blimp (trust me....its not easy to get it off), and if you don't balance your time, important moments get away from you. Soon, you start considering all the aspects you have to keep balanced and suddenly.....you're overwhelmed. 

Life isn't easy...never was intended to be. But the key to holding everything together is this...Take life lightly...if you consider it too heavily you will only depress yourself. Just as keeping things balanced...if you think about it to hard, you only end up failing. You only get one life, and once it is over, its over. 

-Is it better to protect yourself, and be pristine at 100 years old while all of your acquaintances are dead...or live a more thrilling life, and take more chances? 

I have a sign hanging in my kitchen that reads as follows:

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, totally worn out proclaiming, 'Wow, What a Ride!'"

With that said, I urge you, as we approach the weekend (and beginning of summer for some of you) don't be overwhelmed by life...Take things lightly and have fun....soak up the little moments in life: Enjoy a sunset, take a boat ride with the people you love, make a spontaneous road trip with friends, or just treat yourself to an expensive meal for no particular reason at all, and I promise you after enjoying a free and fun weekend, you will feel more relaxed and easy going than ever before...and remember to skid your tires every once in a  while.