Chandelier Balancing Act

Over the last year or so, life and I have reached something of an understanding: it is composed of systems – some of which are of my choosing and some of which, many of which, are not – that must be kept in balance. In the event that balance is not kept – that I abdicate my role in to keeping it and myself centered – life rebalances itself, without my help, to varying degrees of comfort and discomfort.

Though nothing shockingly terrible is happening, I’m aware of a rebalancing in progress, again, as though life’s saying, “I’m doing this with or without you”; at least it, life, is giving me fair warning.

My therapist described life as a chandelier: when one globe gets broken, the chandelier tilts. The only way to restore the balance is to remove another globe – or to replace the broken one.

An aside: switching the time of writing and posting these to after breakfast. Need the pre-breakfast hours for The Work; a functional shift, then: to bring me back to Kaijudesk for the remainder of the morning and the needs and whims of The Work – balance, balance.

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