Freedom of Balance

Concept

I am under the impression that we, humans, are in a constant search for balance. More than we are on the hunt for happiness, contrary to what many of our ancestor philosophers have pointed out.  Those moments of significant bliss can instead cast a shadow on our mundane life by the sheer harshness of the contrast. That is why we don’t just look for luminescence. We try, instead, to figure out our existence in a plane on which both it - and the obscure- can share a table in the diner of our essence without throwing our lives into chaos... or into the extremes.  The extremes are the polarizing edges of the spectrum that leave us feeling alone and misunderstood. 

We all have our own elements to balance out, our personal monsters to fight and our specific expectations to live up to.  We have to juggle sensitivity and composure, beauty and learning to let go, nature and modernity, past and future, dreams and possibilities, order and chaos, the weightlessness and the depths, body and love, and so forth. We need them all to participate to reach harmony, to dance together to the rhythm of freedom.  We feel enslaved to our shadows until we allow them to be a part of our balance. Freedom can’t be found in mayhem. We must lull ourselves in the equilibrium until it becomes time again to break away and delve into the unknown, the uncomfortable, to be able to grow a bit more. Growth is, in fact, a consequence of the journey towards balance.