On the scales of gray in all of us and its relationship to balance
This of course is not new to anyone, but I just felt like putting it here, just for the sake of compiling my musings...
It's interesting that on all of our aspects we have, we are always a shade of gray, take for example a characteristic like selfishness: I would very very hard pressed to find a person who is 100% selfish, or selfless, actually, I could almost guarantee that it would be impossible, we rather have degrees of selfishness in us, shades of gray; and this is where balance comes in, being extremelly selfish or selfless are bad things, as all extremes are, so balancing it out is the best way to lead a happy life, at least for myself.
Now, balance does not always mean 50%, and usually isn't, balance means finding the right amount of a certain aspect with which you feel happy, without going to extremes. In that regard everyone is different and thus their balances are different too..
It's interesting that on all of our aspects we have, we are always a shade of gray, take for example a characteristic like selfishness: I would very very hard pressed to find a person who is 100% selfish, or selfless, actually, I could almost guarantee that it would be impossible, we rather have degrees of selfishness in us, shades of gray; and this is where balance comes in, being extremelly selfish or selfless are bad things, as all extremes are, so balancing it out is the best way to lead a happy life, at least for myself.
Now, balance does not always mean 50%, and usually isn't, balance means finding the right amount of a certain aspect with which you feel happy, without going to extremes. In that regard everyone is different and thus their balances are different too..