Is there a need to strike a balance?
Is this a topic worth discussing about?
Why not we just take whatever thing that comes to our way maximally and then rest when we do not have anything?
As broad as your thoughts are, I want to share with you some of the reasons I am discussing this topic 😃.
*What is actually balance?*
Balance is defined as an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady to avoid falling into crisis.
With this in mind, I believe that you already may have a grasp of where I am headed to,but,chill and let me guide you through my own thoughts☺️.
Some of the areas I will be talking about this topic are;
Work/ Hustles
Eating, drinking alcohol and health
Academics
Spendings and savings
Exercise and Health
Love
Disobedience
I will be talking about these subgroupings under Positives and Negativities of Striking A Balance and how it relates to them.
- WORK/HUSTLES
Here, I am referring to whatever thing we do to earn a living.
POSITIVES
When we strike a balance here, it enables us to know when actually to take a rest which is a very important aspect of living a healthy life.
Pushing oneself to the extent that we breakdown simply takes us back to square one as it is very possible we will exhaust whatever thing we have earned in taking care of our health, but, imagine you taking a rest when you ought to, it will definitely save you a whole lot of stress.
It is also wrong to live a selfish life because actualizing your aim to the detriment of your immediate surrounding is a selfish living;What if you end up attaining this wealth you work so hard for and tomorrow because of one health complication or the other, you are not there for your immediate family that needs you most?
Do you think they will prefer your choice??
NEGATIVES
Without these balance in place, we push ourselves till we gets to our elastic limit to see that things gets done when it should without any consideration for any other thing. We go extra mile in our work areas provided we actualize our aim. All we care is that work and nothing else makes sense to us aside that particular work.
2.EATING, DRINIKING ALCOHOL AND HEALTH
Here, I am talking about the effects of what we take to our health on the long run.
POSITIVES
When this balance is there, we eat and drink responsibly with moderation because we already know that good things do not ever gets exhausted on earth. We eat and drink in a manner thinking about what we will also eat tomorrow or should we finish everything today just because they are available today??
This invariably helps promote our health and we get to live a long healthy life, ceteris paribus.
NEGATIVES
Without this balance🥶, we turn gluttons and drunkards overnight. This scene is beautifully appreciated whenever you go for a ceremony and watch the way people eat and drink all because it is free; one person will eat rice, swallow and still eat yam if he or she sees it around, then wash it all down with different brands of alcoholic drinks and might take Soda drinks once the alcoholic drinks are finished.
What we then fail to realize is the fact that our health is a reflection of what we eat and drink😥. As we gets old, we then start developing all kinds of sickness like diabetes, liver cirrhosis, kidney problems and many others and then we are placed on different medications. The thought of our health may also lead to our developing hypertension and boom💔, we are hypertensive patients taking drugs too.
SO WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED AT LAST?
3.ACADEMICS
Concerns the students to a great extent
POSITIVES
With this balance in place, the student explores other areas of life. He actually see more to life in general than the discipline he or she is studying. He engages in extracurricular activities and of course,most times,students in this category ends up just passing and moving to the next grade. Their performance always hangs on the fence and are average,but,they pass and that is all that matters to them.
NEGATIVES
Without this balance in place, Students read voraciously like their whole life depends and revolves only on their discipline. They fail to engage in other areas of life and extracurricular activities. Some earns the name, "JACKOO".
The student gets to unlock his brain potentials because of the vast reading he or she is doing and hits a new high with all exams as he progresses.Most times they make good grades and are distinction students but illiterates in life experiences as their whole life revolves around lecture classes and exams.
4.SPENDINGS AND SAVINGS
What actually happens with what you earn?
POSITIVES
With proper balance, you get to observe effectively the statement that always tell us to "spend what is remaining after our savings".
You get to have money available for emergencies and unforeseen circumstances which is very applaudable.
NEGATIVES
Without this balance, we gets to try out something new; we no longer restrict ourself to the amount we will save but we try as much as possible even to the extent of stressing ourselves but provided we obtain a figure way more than what we got initially.
Have you ever thought about this and know that you are actually revolving round a circle without an observable growth? The truth remains that if we do not push ourselves more than the level we already are, we will never grow.
Imagine saving 10$ every month and ends up having 120$ at the end of the year and then you solve your problem with it lets say at the end of that year and then next year you start all over again and saves the same 120$ the next year and the cycle continues,
DID YOU GROW?
What if at the end of that year, you are faced with a task that needs 150$ to solve?
Do you go begging?
5. EXERCISE AND HEALTH
Does exercise have any link with your health?
POSITIVES
With this balance,you get to moderate whatever exercise you are doing. You take it at your pace improving daily rather than straining yourself above what you can do at that moment.
By so doing, you do not get to stress your body in general and then achieves the benefit of the exercise you went for; You improve your health.
NEGATIVES
When you are lacking moderation, after a long break from morning joggings for instance, you comes back and boom, you already want to fire up and finish marathon. Things doesn’t work like that, you might slump and then it is now a hospital thing; many have died from it.
Imagine you as a weight lifter jumping to 100kg after lifting 30kg, you can already imagine what will happen😅
You also risk yourself of getting Cardiovascular diseases because of the too much stress you are compelling the system to do and you can also suffer Rhabdomyolysis.
6. LOVE
An interesting point of course, lol. Just very few actually portrays the true love like Jesus Christ anyway❤️
POSITIVES
When a balance is placed, you love be it yourself or your neighbor with wisdom and your brain and not loving with your brain behind the soles of your foot. Yes, I know very well that love should be without calculation and limitless but it still doesn't mean you should love foolishly. You love bearing in mind of what will happen when break up or breakfast happens😅; you love bearing in mind of how to move on should things go south.
They love but in calculation.
NEGATIVITIES
Without a balance,one gets to love himself or herself to the extent that his or her existence alone impedes on the activities of his or her neighbor; all you care is just your own satisfaction.
Have you not heard of guys that even borrow to satisfy the needs of their girlfriends? Does it make any sense to you?
They love their neighbours but will never displease themselves just to satisfy their neighbors. They think about themselves first before taking any decision at all.
Have you not heard of people that committed suicide because their partner(boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife) cheated on them or left them? You are now forced to ask yourself,"is this love really worth ending your life for?
What would have happened if only this victim applied wisdom in whatever love he or she proclaimed?
7. DISOBEDIENCE
Curious about how a bad virtue got here, yes, hear my view 😃
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POSITIVES
Yeah, I have seen the good sides of disobedience with moderation.
I remember in secondary school when two students were called by the house master holding the head of a hoe to flog them, one of them ran away while the other one came and lo and behold, the house master flogged him with that and he ended up in the orthopaedic the next day while the other guy that ran away later received manual labour after which he left without undergoing pains of fracture.
NEGATIVITIES
When moderation is not in the disobedience, someone even disobeys instruction that will help him, instructions that will make him or her better in life.
He just derives joy in disobeying orders even when those orders are there to help him or her.
Depending on how he or she progresses, the person might end up in the four walls of correctional services (Prison) and live to regret for the rest of his or her life.
Permit me to leave you with a big question,
Is Striking A Balance Important In ALL we do??
Have a lovely April.