The Key Element of Life

We have all been hearing of a balanced diet from the first grade. The accurate mix of fruits, vegetables, fluids, and meat creates a great balance for our body to be in the best condition possible. Apart from a total disregard of the diet and hogging up on junk food since a young age, I never really thought much about a balanced diet or why it was needed either.

Few years and newly discovered hobbies and interests later, I ran across the need for a balanced diet again, this time, in compulsion. However, this time, I thought more deeply about balance. It was not much later that I realized how essential moderation is.

People around us are built the same, but each of us with a beautiful and unique variation. Often people have used this variation as a root for conflict and false superiority, but peace and harmony, something we strive for, can only be achieved if we accept and moderate our variations. The best standing example is our own country at the time of Independence, over 200 communities, stood under one flag. However, isn’t it ironic that we send young men armed to the teeth with weapons to protect our peace?

The liquid that gives us life, water, consuming even a millilitre more than our body’s capacity can cause diseases like water intoxication.Everything around us is a perfect balance of either atoms and molecules, or wood and fibre or any substance under the sun.

I was easily able to connect to the element of balance and moderation to mental health. Often, people forget to understand how important it is to maintain a balance for our mental well-being! Yes, really, a balance must be struck in all aspects of our mental health. A balance must be struck after your triumphs such that your confidence enables you to continue the winning strife but does not give you a sense of superiority. Maintaining a moderate circle of friends is also important as it provides the perfect middle-ground of having the traditional closely-knit friendship and acquaintances who may be of help to you soon in the future.

The overall point of this article is to bring the readers to their own desired middle-ground. Everyone is different, and so are their notions of unison and harmony.

It is perfectly fine to take a break from the load of projects that you have been typing up and reward yourself to a nice cup of coffee or a nap. Find the balance between the brightness of your laptop screen and the brightness of the sunlight outside. Try your best to adjust to the new learning system in place, but also learn to stand up and critique its flaws when it does not let you strike the topic of this article, a balance. Learn to practice teamwork and individualism in the perfect harmony. Say no to that friend who continuously dumps his/her homework on you. You can either try to add a few trophies on your video games or try to cut a few seconds from your 100 metres sprint speed time.

Ultimately, the only person who knows what is best for you is none other than you. Take some time out of your schedule to decide a balance between your screen time and outdoor time, your introspection time and family time, setting your priorities, but making sure that your well-being is not taken out of view.

Finding a balance, may help us achieve our desires, all the while not forgetting to do it with a smile.Everyone tries to be perfect and struggling to do so, only makes you human.

Written by:

Raushan Jamal