So, vacation is over. To sum up: I wake boarded on a chain link fence behind a tracker while it was hailing, I sewed my pants to my underwear, and in the end I learned a lot about balance.
I don't want to get caught up on the details of sewing my pants to my underwear, it's a really boring story fraught with meticulous stitches and red thread... quite boring. However, I feel like expressing a huge sigh of brain relief. Sometimes when I only have my thoughts to keep my thoughts in check things get very messy (see other blog entries). At this point in my life I need some friends to release and re-evaluate whatever conclusions I've come to (I've got a lot to say about that too). Release is not enough (i.e. like this blog). I thought it was enough to release my thoughts by having to write them, but it's not.
Balance. I have learned new insight on my balance between my religious and political beliefs, social skills and humility, focus and exercise, faith and knowledge. It seems silly to write such big ideas but that's the truth of it. I have it all inside, but without anyone to challenge me and to speak honestly with me, it's all just a pile of crap. Let me share some of my insights (it's not all politicky, I promise, it's much more zen'ish).
Democrats and Republicans
Here's the deal: Democrats see themselves as compassionate ants. They work hard to do what they do to better the lives of those around them, if they work as a community they can build a successful community (think relief society). Republicans see democrats as their over-protective mothers who rule with an iron fist (think over-protective mothers... with a Russian accents). Republicans see themselves as artists. The artist will thrive or fade by his own skill, you cannot have a committee deciding on which color to use, or which stroke is the last, it is the artist that chooses. Democrats see republicans as Ebenezer Scrooge (before the ghost of Christmas past). Each side is beautiful and each philosophy functional, and if you can't see this you are unbalanced... then comes the balancing, someone, somewhere feels the exact opposite and when they speak up, YOU will speak up against that. There is no 1 party utopia, there is no 'right way', because both are flawed, both will balance. When one teeters,'inertia' will bring it back. Whether by revolution or election it will always balance out because that's what people do, that is who WE are. Understanding the balance that is our society is a must if we truly wish to be happy with it. "Hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is"- (Dr. Phil?) I was once indifferent two both repubs and demo's, now I love and respect both sides and accept their necessary existence.
See, Zen!
To be continued...
