The last couple of months have been of a whirlwind of work, friends, family, softball, music history, church stuff…

It’s funny because at the beginning of the summer I was so gung ho about doing a lot for God and being active etc.  I guess my need for activity stemmed from a fairly boring term of mostly focusing on school and not much…”life”. 

But now the balance is skewed the other way.  I’m tired of running around and I just want to be alone.  I want time to be by myself and sleep and sing along to my favourite pop tune=P  As much as I consider myself a “people” person…i get drained when I’m around ppl a lot.  I think that’s why I AM partially introverted.

Yeah, so  I think “balance” is something that we talk about a lot, but is so hard to actually acheive.

At work I hear the words “work-life balance” quite frequently.  Because most of my coworkers are married and have children, it is even more important to maintain that balance.   I’m beginning to see more of the challenges faced when trying to have a family and career at the same time.  Issues like who will take care of the children, what daycare to put the kids in…it’s not very fun sometimes, being an adult.

At school I try to maintain a “school-life balance”.  Without a conscious effort, I think my natural tendency is to be a nerd.  It takes a real effort to bring me away from my books.  But so far, I have found that I am the most sane, happy, productive when I find the right balance of school and play.  And most of all, when my spiritual life is on track, the other things also fall in place.  (Last summer was so good…)

It’s been really hard to “keep things together”.  I think instead of relying on God and making him the center (where life itself revovles around), I’ve been plugging God in whenever it’s convenient.  I think at this current pace I’ll be even more burnt out than when I started.

*sigh* 

Just take it easy, Jacq.