Every now and then I answer a question from a reader that I figure best to answer en masse…here’s one that struck me recently:
It’s come up a few times in comments on this blog. What’s the deal with my two speeds – my heels/red carpet/hair extensions/smile-for-cameras existence, and my live-in-the-hills/simple/non-shopping/biking/no makeup life? How do I do it? Does it tear me?
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It seems to confound a few people. Or suggest to some that I’m inconsistent.
Normally I don’t feel obliged to explain myself (should we ever if we’re not harming anyone?), but I have put some thought to the issue lately.
I think many of us have two speeds. Our busy, crazy self and then the self we try to come home to with friends and family and with ourselves.
I think many of us feel that somehow we need to be marrying the two. Uniting them. Or finding a middle ground between. We call this balance. We seek it.
I ask, though, is balance about finding a middle?
Or can balance be about dancing between the two, or three, or four aspects of ourselves? Can we not be all the things, authentically?
BUT, cry some, that’s fine if your values are consistent across the selves. I agree. And this part of the dance isn’t always easy.