Unbalanced

I have been told — and maybe you have too — that to be a successful, productive person in this world we need to have a balanced life. But what does that mean, and how do we know what that really looks like? Is it Getting a good education, a career making good money, financial security, buying a house, cars, and being just a Really good person? Those all seem like good things, but in the end will they last?

What if the most fulfilling, Adventurous and meaningful life we could live is not what most people would call balanced? What if someone told us, to live we must die, to gain we must lose, to have everything we must give it away. That doesn’t sound balanced — it sounds Crazy! Could it be that the way we find what we are truly looking for is not by finding a life of balance, but finding something so unbalanced it changes Everything else?