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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  1092 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 21, 2021

Yes, work-life balance isn't quite what I'm referring to with this question, though it's certainly fair game and within the limits of the question. I don't think anything is off-limits for a question like that.

    If we need, say, music in our lives and don’t have it, be attuned to the hunger. If you don’t feed yourself what you need (rest, contact with others, touch, hockey, whatever) you might become passive-aggressive, aggressive, or even develop panic attacks.

This puts into words what balance can mean. Is it balance, though, if you're satiating that hunger? Or is it a reaction to a need in that moment? Now I'm left wondering - is "balance" the sustained satiation of that hunger for something like music without having a deficit elsewhere? I'm not sure that's possible. Hm.





lil  ·  1076 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I knew that you weren't specifically asking about w-l balance, but I thought I'd address it anyway.

As for this

    How do you define balance in your life?
I’m wondering why that question was coming up for you.