Basically it says that Life is like trying to balance 5 balls -- Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirituality. Sometimes it is easy to see all these 5 balls as the same thing, but there is one very important difference. Work is a ball made of rubber, even if I drop it, it will bounce back to me sooner or later. But the rest of the other balls are not made of rubber, they are made of glass. So if I drop one of these balls it will chip, crack or even shatter...
In good times I appreciate that such a goal is not easy to accomplish. However, what I do realise is that in challenging times such goals are perhaps even more important to strive towards. All too often in the pursuit of material things, or more relevantly today, in the struggle for survival, people can forget their innate needs for connectedness, and become mean and downright nasty to the ones they care most about. Also, wishing that Life isn't as what has been observed by Mr Dyson doesn't make it so. No matter how we slice or dice it, there are matters in life that are so important to us that even if we ignore them our entire lives, they will return to us with either the price that we pay for neglect, or the rewards that we reap for taking heed.
The choice my friend, as ever, is yours..
