Balance is a hard thing to keep, forget keep, even find, or realize you need; both of which must be experimented with in order to find it in the first place. Sometimes, and often as adults, the only thing keeping us from obtaining this individual peace is, of course, ourselves. Weather it is our everyday routines that have sunk too rutted and mundane for our creative sides to flourish or the basic thoughts we foster day in and day out; steps must be taken and rigidly followed to make the everyday more enjoyable and exciting, but most of all, and most importantly, more you. Whatever these encouragements can conjure to your mind, find your happy places and let them engross your private life.
This is an outlook, not necessarily a state of being; to presently fluctuate with life like a tide in the sea. Imagine if we all fluctuated our balance like the tides in the sea; allowing ourselves to be swept away by as little as a breeze or our neighboring tides, swaying this way and that with the cycle of the moons.
Tides do not judge the suds that give it shape nor the tides that accompany it in its journey to the shore and back.
Tides engulf each other, becoming all-consuming, and together, they are powerful. And then all at once, calm again.
We will eventually be led back to the unavoidable realization that we are not tides though.
What to do with our innate compulsion to judge?
Maybe we should use it to learn from the tides.
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." It was no other than the late, beloved Gandhi who spoke these famous words of wisdom, and how true they ring in my ears now more an ever before. Because, if just you are the change you wish to see in the world then that change has already taken shape. Though this shape may be small, do not forget how utterly vast humans have become on our planet. Not only is there bound to be someone else who shares your views, but in time, through the basis of cultural then societal communication and compassionate, conveyed thoughtfulness, we can all grow to share the same seed of truth that strengthens love and compassionate action — most hopefully resulting in bonded, existential balance.
In Jocund Nature and With Compassionate Camaraderie,
Jasmyn