Topic #2--Balance

Balance

It seems that we are all trying to achieve this in our busy lives-- with our family, relationships, jobs, our hobbies and passions, appointments, errands, and everything in between. What does achieving balance in our lives really mean? Is it possible to achieve, and if so, how do we do it? How do we know when things are out of balance? Let these questions be your guides as you create your entry. I look forward to all of your insights!

Definitions of balance on the Web:
- a state of equilibrium
-a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
-the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- proportion: harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
- equality of distribution
- remainder: something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
- Libra: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra
- Libra: the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22
- bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
- symmetry: (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- compute credits and debits of an account
- counterweight: a weight that balances another weight
- poise: hold or carry in equilibrium
- balance wheel: a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
- be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot"