Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as time goes by. Even when we are faced with wounds that heal more slowly, with pain that lessens by day only to return in full force at nightfall, even when sleep does not leave us rested, we still expect that somehow tomorrow will all come back into balance and that we will go on. At some point, the exquisite balance has tipped, and despite all our flailing efforts, we begin the slow fall from the body that maintains itself to the body that struggles, nails clawing, to cling to what it used to be. Robin Hobb
About This Quote

The author expresses the idea that life can be a balance between good and bad. The body has the ability to heal wounds, to feel pain, to sleep well. However, sometimes it's inability to heal or feel pain can result in balance tipping in the wrong direction. When this happens, life goes from being a balance to one of imbalance.

As the body loses what it once was, it begins to go back toward its original state. Balance is always maintained throughout the entire world, because everything is constantly in motion. For example, you are reading this article.

Everything is in motion at once; your mind is reading these words written by the author of this article. There are people who are reading this article at this very moment, but all of them are different people with different thoughts and ideas. Next time you read an article, think about how much movement there is within the world while you are reading it.

Source: Fools Errand

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