I love to preach about how everyone should seek to obtain balance in their everyday lives. Why? Because that is what I want and what I firmly believe constitutes a healthy and happy life. We all need a bit of balance.
I confess, however, and hang my head in shame as I say before you that I have NO balance in my life currently. After having started two jobs recently, I find myself in a situation where I 1) sleep less than five hours a night and 2) I find myself sitting in front of a screen for an un-godly amount of hours of the day.
How did this happen? How did I suddenly start skipping meals, not moving my body and worst of all – loosing sleep?
I know that parents out there will say, honey, just wait ’till you have kids. And I am. I am waiting because the idea of sleeping less than five hours a night scares me to death. If you could see what I look like on such little sleep, you would be scared too.
Today, however, despite a pile of work wining at me, I went to the gym and it felt swell. Endorphins went mental and I was high. High on all the goodness that comes with shaking ones body violently for an hour. But that doesn’t mean I have re-gained balance in my life. I made a small step towards it though….perhaps that is the trick, baby steps. One small step today, one giant step when looking at the big picture.
I fear, however, that one day, in the far distant, oh-my-dear-God-may-it-not-happen-too-soon future…when I do have children, that I will be an awful, terrible, miserable human being. How does one balance breast-feeding, eating right, going to the gym work, sex-life, friends…how, I ask? How? I suppose the trick to life is finding balance within the situations one encounters throughout ones life span. When a child is in the picture, you find balance within that specific situation…and so on and so forth.
Easily said, difficulty done. But if it was easy it wouldn’t be any fun, I tell myself in an effort to nudge myself along…
On that note, I am going to bed. For the first time in two weeks I am going to get to sleep before 1am. The face mask is on my head waiting to cover my two tired eyes…
Goodnight Moon. Goodnight amigos…I shall now go dream of balance, booze and bacon. Because I have been craving it, but that’s for another post.
How do you balance all of that? Easily. You either plan everything out (which leaves little to be desired for the sex life) or you stop worrying about things that are inevitable, and start focusing on tangible things like what you have right in front of you, right now. You sound like you need to cut some things out of your life, if not reduce them, and start thinking about “What needs to get done” rather than “What you want to do” Once you have your ‘Needs’ covered, then you’ll start finding ways to get some luxuries in there, starting with sleep.
I’ll be honest, the Bacon in the title brought me here, but I think I’ve found something much better… although not as tasty. You are human, you can adapt to anything Life throws at you, just relax, breathe and you’ll be alright!
Hello there – Thanks for your comment. Yes, perhaps simplifying is the key to balance. But, what do you mean by saying I have to cut things out of my life….what gives you that idea? I am just curious. Breathe is what I have to do, I even have a rock with those words imprinted on them…I always joke that if I were to get a tattoo I would have it say “breathe” – my friend told me to simply put it on a post it and stick it to myself daily. Perhaps an option, but not as “cool”…I look forward to reading your blog too! So glad you stopped by! Good night xox
Well, I said that in response to you posting “How does one balance breast-feeding, eating right, going to the gym work, sex-life, friends…how, I ask? How?”
You don’t have to cut anything out necessarily, but moderation would be key for all these things. If I’ve spoken out of key, I apologize, but that’s what I picked up, so if it’s wrong, then heh, just ignore it. I’ve learned that when you find yourself in that moment of overwhelming stress, just close your eyes and step out of the world for a moment and just breathe, I tell my lil sister this all the time, heh, it’s come to the point where she’s getting annoyed by it because she knows what to do, but doesn’t want to hear me repeat it to her. Take care of youself, I look forwards to reading more interesting posts such as this one.