The Juggling Act

Most of us spend our entire adult lives juggling. We juggle family, friends, work, free time. Sometimes extra balls are thrown in the mix and we are forced to juggle our health or our changing life goals. We spend so much time juggling and trying to keep everything going that we sometimes forget what our priorities are.
I have learned in life that my family is a glass ball. They mean everything to me and if I drop that ball, it shatters. Family stays in the mix, always. True friends are rare, hard to find, and even harder to keep. They are a precious glass ball as well. Friends stay in the mix. Recently my health became a glass ball. What once was not to be an issue that needed to be juggled suddenly became one. Taking care of my health stays in the mix. The most important lesson I have learned recently is that work is a rubber ball. It can be dropped at any time and has the ability to bounce back. I have spent far too long thinking that work was a glass ball, thinking that work was the ONLY ball, that I have forgotten the importance of everything else. Sometimes it is good to have a wakeup call to be reminded of what is truly important in life.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you apprieciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. -Marilyn Monroe