Balancing
Our lives are divided into compartments. We have a home life and a work life. We have our family relationships, and we have our other relationships. The phone calls we accept are compartmentalized as important and unimportant. Constantly, we separate and divide into factions various aspects of our lives, prioritizing and dismissing intentionally and at random.
Perhaps the cause of this sorted navigational activity has something to do with our internal divisions. We are subdivided spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, social, solitary beings. Some of these parts can occupy an inhabited sense which is in direct opposition to another part. Take falling in love with a loser, for example! It may not make sense to the mind, but the body and emotions have taken over completely before you know it, and next thing you know, you are kicking yourself for letting your heart make your decisions.
To top all this off, the rate at which our various parts come to maturity and balance, is completely out of sync. We can be very highly developed spiritually, and a complete klutz when it comes to sharing our feelings. We can be calm and controlled when faced with an emotional confrontation, but cannot seem to understand the importance of physical exercise or eating well. Our segregated internal construct is constantly teetering between our various aspects, engaged in an effort of balancing that would give competition to a high-wire act.
We know our strengths and we know our weaknesses, but sometimes we get them confused and fall flat on our face with embarrassment at our own stupidity in decision-making and behavior. Most likely, it is our words which end up serving our ego on a silver platter, complete with a requisite side of humiliation. It's good to mess up occasionally to remind us of our humanity.
When we can recognize our own balancing problems, it's much easier to forgive others when they can't seem to find theirs.
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