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THE ART OF BALANCE

We are good only because we have resisted bad; honest because we choose not to lie. Shadows are dependent on the existence of light.  We enjoy a break only  when you have a busy work schedule.  Who would enjoy warmth if there was no cold.
Indeed, we are what we are because the opposite exists. Strike it down and we are no more. Does it then mean we allow evil to prosper so that we can be good ? May be not.
Nature gives us a clue. When we plant a  sapling, it grows towards sunlight, it is actually dependent on its roots, digging further into the darkness of the earth. Both extremes are vital to its life. And when it has grown to its full potential, it breaks open to sprout seeds, which again fall back to the ground. Nature’s cycle of life.
Contrast and balance is essential to life. We are good not because we have no bad within us, but because we have resisted it and struck a balance that suits us. In one of TV programme,  a woman advises her granddaughter not to diet and to eat all, but ensure she stops just before she is full and to eat a balanced diet. So, what is required is a space between starvation and overeating and a balanced diet.
Similarly, one needs to balance all aspects of life. From one extreme flows another. If only one has the patience and farsightedness to envisage that. Shattered by extreme grief, parents of seven-year old boy, who died of dengue, committed suicide.  But we also know of parents who, under similar unfortunate circumstances, found the meaning of life !
Do we feel unhappy and incomplete ? Maybe it is because we haven’t struck a healthy balance in our life between work and pleasure, duties and responsibilities, noise and silence, or sleep and waking. We need to constantly assess which aspect of life needs more attention, because this keeps changing. To live with equilibrium one needs to understand one’s priorities and time accordingly to various aspects of everyday living. This alone creates balance between opposites and makes for a healthy, happy life.
Balance in life as in good music, is through continuity and smooth transition between contrasts – not in breaks. As with music, life also can find balance from a composition of either chaos or of peace.


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