Un-balanced

Adult life is a serious of balancing acts. We add metaphoric plates to our show aiming to impress everyone watching. We balance plates of work, life, relationships, hobbies, goals, etc. all on just two hands in a baffling array. We like to tell ourselves that it is possible, that one can maintain all these things every day. Some days, this statement rings true. Other days, life throws obstacles at us from the crowd. Our car is now making an unsettling noise, that pain in our arm hasn’t gone away, or maybe the mailbox has fallen over. These obstacles break our concentration and cause us to become unbalanced. The plates start to falter and a few hit the ground shattering. We try to keep the show going but often wind up dropping more plates. Our confidence can shatter with the plates causing doubt that we can keep any plate spinning.

If you find yourself in this boat, stop. Bring down the plates speed and take them off the sticks. Breathe deeply and start to bring one plate back up to speed. Take confidence in that ability, remember that all great journeys need those first steps. Keep that first plate spinning strong, remember that you are enough. Once that’s done, add another plate. Keep up this process till all the right plates are up in the air. Life’s balancing act is rough and takes lots of trials to learn which plates are important, which ones are on rotation, and which ones never should be in the air. If you do falter, fear not. Sigh, re-group, and end that period of unbalance.