life is a series of spinning plates
When I started blogging here on Bear, which was only about a month or so ago, I was able to post almost daily, this month? I've not even been online for the last 3 days.
The reason? I've been out with friends and on a couple of dates with someone (they went really well, thanks for asking).
But I bring this up because despite being on holiday for the first half of this week, I feel like I've not had any chance to relax because I've been spinning other plates - or in the case of my dating life, starting getting it moving again.
I enjoy having balance in life, but when I think about it, I don't think there is such a thing as real balance in life.
I'm beginning to understand that it's just a series of spinning plates that require us to constant flitter between them to make sure they keep spinning. If they stop? Well that's when certain things truly go downhill.
I am realising that I can't keep everything spinning, there isn't enough time and not enough of me to go around. Instead, we need to prioritise what gives us the benefits we need at any one time.
Perhaps we need to focus on our health and our career, maybe we need to focus on our partners (or in my case, dating life), perhaps it's to be social with friends... There are so many different plates and combinations of plates we can be spinning that it can become a bit of a mindfuck.
With that said, we should try and be forgiving on ourselves when things do inevitably start slowing down or stopping because we're having to focus on another plate.
It's all about balance, but that doesn't mean everything all at once but rather things as we need them.