How many times will I find myself writing about this idea of balance? Quite frankly, immediately after I titled the post I felt a sense of dread and regret. It seems to me I am constantly wanting to find a balance in my life between all the competing tasks and people I want to fit in but realizing that there is not time in a day to do and connect with everyone and everything. Sometimes that leaves me very frustrated.
Recently, my Wii Fitness board has begun to teach me an important lesson about balance. (If you don’t have a Wii Fit or have no idea what I’m talking about, I’ll digress long enough to say the Wii is a game system for your television set and the Fit part is a board that works with the Wii to let a person exercise and weigh themselves, to get “fit.”) Everyday I religiously get on the Wii Fitness Board and weigh myself and then proceed to exercise and do Wii yoga (you can laugh if you wish). One day I may have exceptional balance (my Wii fitness trainer tells me so!) and the very next day she’ll tell me I’m a little shaky and that I need to work on my core muscles; she’s animated so she never loses her balance that I’ve seen. My life seems the same- one day I get the important things done and make contact with the people with whom I was hoping to connect. The next day there are more things and people than I can possibly fit.
I wonder if finding balance in life is a worthless pursuit because I’m not animated (not in the cartoon-sense anyway). There will always be more than I can do in a lifetime waiting for me to do them, more people to meet and hang with than I can see. Life is NOT about finding balance but making choices and setting priorities about those choices. Life is interesting in part because there is so much calling out to be done and seen and enjoyed. Life is challenging in part because we have to choose or things will happen apart from our choosing anyway.
I’m going to try to focus on setting the best priorities for my life and time and leave worrying about balance to my Wii Fitness Trainer!
