A MAY MUSING

For this month of May, my mantra is simple – Focus on balance.

We grow up thinking you could either be selfish or selfless, happy, or sad, and that emotions or feelings are all ever so consuming. That when you’re happy, you’re entire being lights up from within & takes away all of this weight off your shoulder.

And so, we wait. We wait to experience this feeling of happiness that sweeps over us, sometimes undetected & sometimes hard earned. We wait for the happiness to make darkness a long-lost memory & heal us.   

But as I grew up, I realized you could be so many things at once, you could be happy & sad at the same time. You could be utterly selfish and selfless, moody yet upbeat. There are lives within us, a universe formed that’s ever changing.

Here too it’s important to read between the lines, understand this chasm in our minds & learn this balancing act of light & darkness.

Balance is something that has eluded me lately. I’m either all in, in whatever I do or all out. And for the past few months/maybe a year or two, I’ve been slowly but steadily foregoing on so many of my passions just to focus on that one thing – which in the long run may even not be as important.

And so, for this month of May – my focus is Balance.