HOW DO WE BALANCE HAVING SO MUCH TO DO?
As life wears on and the hands of the clock slowly ticks, we begin to feel as though life rushes on and time jumps from cradle to grave. And in the midst of it all, we have so much to do, yet so little accomplished.
Partly because in the midst of making ends meet, we meet with responsibilities, forgetting crucial parts of life, such as “passion, hobbies, desire.”
Life has made us robotic in our drive and mechanical in the means to it. Thus, we forget the higher call, a noble way, the the beautiful things, and the perfect things that calls to our heart — no matter how soft, little and insignificant they may seem in the eyes of others.
Perhaps the best way to approach life is to go at it. Life has proven its best to be unpredictable. Hence, it might be slightly difficult for our carefully crafted approach to beat whatever might be faced in the nick of time.
Maybe time-consciousness isn’t a bad idea? But how do we deal with things when we are given deadlines too strict for the time on our hands? Perhaps discipline is a needed virtue. But should a stoic not find time to give into hedonistic tendencies? Does deprivation not have its limits? What, then, shall we say about keen observation to details? Is there not a limit to the things we can notice in passing? The direction of the wind, the call of the finch, the dog barking in distance, the rat scuttling through holes and crevices? With what sensory perception do we attempt to capture all that nature has to offer? Are we not limited by the limited nature of our sensory perceptions? Is life and her constituents not too grandiose for our mind to grasp?
Perhaps it should be step-by-step. Perhaps we should be aggressive with all we do. Perhaps we should be gentle in all approaches, and sometimes we should be able to identify when to be gentle in our dealings.
This has to be the way out — where we have a mind so clear and a heart so open that we are able to decide how to approach life at certain points. Life is not a one-size-fits-all scheme of things. She throws jabs at us, oftentimes, without measuring our capacity to handle that which we are to face. Then, we have to grow out of our current capacity, and we have to have countless tactics in place to address the matters that may be thrown at us. Perhaps there is no single way to deal with life and her complexities. For there is so much to do, with a constant time.
