The balance, the poise and the equilibrium

My blog is essentially "my take on life", as a friend of mine used to describe. Many of my posts are born out of some lateral thinking spun from an agreement or a disagreement I would have with worldly affairs, or just sprouted out of an experience, an observation or a discussion. But there are some posts that are all of these. This is one such post. I seem to suddenly be relating this to everything, everywhere. In fact this entire post is taken out of what I wrote somewhere else. 

 

Contrary to the popular adage that claims you cannot both have the cake and eat it, there is a balance you can mostly strike with everything in life. This balance is not exactly like eating half and having half, but this is almost like having as well as eating. For example, you can be patient for success as well as be impatient for progress, you can be responsible with age as well as be sparkling with childhood, you can be serious at your job as well as be playful with your people. And you can apply this to your integration with the society too - you can very well be adhering to the societal norms as well as be protesting them in your thoughts, you can follow a rule as well as break it, you can be very similar to the rest of the people as well as be very different. 

 

Maybe there are hundred ways to not be all of these together, but I feel there is at least one way for each of us to be all of these and still be ourselves. We do strike this balance with most things in life, just that we don't notice, and consequently fail to extend it to the rest of the things. Think about the clothes we wear. Do we wear it for the world or for ourselves? Both - we cover ourselves up, but we wear what we like. 

 

Imagining it poetically, I feel each of us lives in two worlds - one inside and the other outside. The inside world is for us, we can include only the things and people we want to. And then there is the real world where we have to operate within the reigns. But once we realize the freedom within ourselves and the harmony we need to create outside, it's only a matter of time before we can expand this inner space and accept that the inside world is just part of the outside world. The acceptance already means that we're happy both being ourselves in our world and being like how others want us to be in the outside world. 

 

It may look like a trade off, but it's actually a balance, a balance on limits that keep expanding as we know more, learn more and grow more. It is this balance and poise that, I feel, could give us the equilibrium that we would not want to miss.