Juggling.

I am struck this month by how unwilling so many of us are to lay down the balls that we are juggling, and to find stillness, and some perspective.

Each of us have a number of balls in the air – some of them  light and brightly colored, others dull and surprisingly heavy, and others still that are just downright slippery; causing us to sometimes drop the whole lot. We dive after the fallen ones and try to reassemble them and resume juggling, as quickly as possible.

Why do we rush to do this? Dropping a ball actually gives us the opportunity to re-evaluate. Is the wise thing to do to lay them out in front of us? To pause and look at (and reconsider) each one? We forget that we choose the balls that we pick up to juggle – the choice is always ours. Sometimes it’s a difficult choice, and not a ball that we would like to keep, but we must remember that we control the speed of the juggling, as well as the number of the balls.

If one of the ones you have selected is heavy, compensate for this by being more selective on the others. Select what you choose to juggle cautiously. Select who you choose to juggle for even more carefully. The act of juggling can be carefree, and still controlled – the choice is yours.