Tend to opt for balance; yet understand that imbalance is productive, for we learn lessons this way. So stay light, go into the imbalances with ease, understanding that perfection is unobtainable and unnecessary and even undesirable. The ride is the fun part. It's exactly the same as riding a bike. If you go too far for too long without a break, you get really tired and you cannot run very efficiently, even if you are still pedaling and moving forward. The hills are the hardest parts but right after the end of the worst hill is always the best downhill, complete with a view and no stops and no threats and the perfect song in your headphones. Life is the same way. Take breaks, keep your main needs sustained and in balance to the best of your ability (even this will slide from time to time, but lessons are there), as in food, water, sleep, and spending time in a place that feels safe like 'home.' And after the most difficult times, when everything seems to be out of balance and there is no possible way that it will ever put itself back together again (because of course we don't really have much control), it does. It requires simple actions though, not the complex ones that everyone's so accustomed to. We do not have to sit and analyze every potential outcome. We can if we like, though. Because when we're light, even the analyses that used to torment us become fun. It requires relaxing the muscles in your body, and if any spots flare up in pain or uncomfort, then you sit where it hurts and breathe until it stops hurting, or you breathe where you feel like you want to get up and move and are all of the sudden very restless, and then you become still and are able to sit in that exact position for a long period of time. It is that simple! I don't know why nobody explains it like this. Any time you are feeling shitty at all, like you're just having a bad day, or something lame is bothering you and even if you don't want to attribute it to the childhood or adolescent trauma/hardship you experienced that made you the slightly dysfunctional person that you are, ALL you have to do is relax. Just relax. Feel good. Feel the moment, play with things around you in your head like you're a child, and let the way the light moves across your face or the way your eyelids light up red when you close them in the sun make you smile.

This is why I like to study art. Art is just the physical study of the most basic and simple parts of life. We study lines, colors, shapes, the way things interact with our brains and the way things make us interact with ourselves and each other and the world around us, it's the study of life in smaller, more identifiable forms for the human brain. And the lookers of art do not realize that they are being tested, they are the test, they are the art themselves. They make the art possible because even if the artist was only creating for himself, every artist I've known has a subconscious appeal to mess with the brain of his or her viewers.