For those of you out in bloggerland who have been following my writing, I am grateful for your loyalty and I apologize for not having contributed anything recently. The only explanation I have is: life happened. Between a new job, a new apartment and the warm summer sun my attention has been elsewhere. I am sure that most of you can relate. Life has this way of picking us up and pulling us along onto the next thing, rarely giving us a chance to breath, smell the flowers or take care of ourselves, let alone blog about it. Before we know it we find ourselves on the other end of that short journey looking back perplexed at where we have come from.
So of course this got me thinking... how do we find the balance? I would like to think I find that from my family, my friends, my house or even my sketch book. However I know that is not the truth, there is only one place where we can truly hope to gain, find, restore or emit balance. That is from within. Everything around you is constantly changing and evolving. With marriages, divorces, babies, new jobs, new cities and new adventures even our families, friends and homes change. The constant is not the ground which we stand upon, but in fact the centre at which we propel ourselves over that ground.
With all the change around me right now I have made myself one simple promise. Every morning when I wake up I sit quietly alone in a corner of my room. I silence my mind, I offer my body the stillness it deserves, and I meditate. This is sometimes only for 5 minutes and some days I end up fighting my ego the entire way. Regardless, I honour what I bring to that moment, and in that still presence I remind myself both who I am and where I will find my strength to undertake another day. And sometimes, when I am really present, I find it, the balance. The world does not stop spinning around me, the emails do not stop flooding in, my bedroom floor is still covered in clothes, but it no longer matters, because within it all, within myself, I am content.
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