It's a circus clown on stilts, throwing around four or at times five fire lit torches. He, not only has the pressure to be able to stand on stilts with giant clown shoes, he also has the whole audience watching intensely to see if he drops a torch or even worse catches on fire. The audience gets more excited as he struggles or when he lights more torches. This my friends is a very extended metaphor for the life we all live in.
We have the pressure to balance all these responsibilities on top of not embarrassing ourselves (too much) and all these aspects of life keep "lighting up" and we have to continue juggling everything. On top of that we have what at times feels like the rest of the world looking at us, whispering and wondering when we'll fall. Pressure and responsibilities don't discriminate, every man, women, tall, short, black, white, orange, Asian, American or British have them. I've been noticing it more, especially now that I'm living in a big city, how much people juggle in their lives. The business people on the tube carrying their brief cases full of work they didn't finish, while on the phone with their child who's so excited to have them come home, the look on their face of exhaustion leads me to think they're juggling much more..or the people in my classes that tell me they are studying part time, working full time and are mothers of four! And all these responsibilities makes it hard to have free time, to spend with family, friends and to simply enjoy things life has to offer.
So it's important that this clown gets at least one day off a week to step away from the show, but in real life that might not be possible and it can lead to a very stressed out clown, which can leading further down to depression (my psych way of thinking is beginning to show) and a can lead to a sad, very sad clown. It's important to try and find some time for a break from it all.
We're all running our own circus show. In my juggling act, I now have the pressure of being new to a country and trying to not embarrass myself too much. One torch is lit with the pressure of studying again after two years off, another with the pressure of getting used to the British uni system, and all these endless readings. On top of that I have to make sure I'm setting some time aside to make good friendships here and keep in touch with those far. So in my circus I'm a short clown, whose shoes are too big and is still getting used to her stilts, and juggling three or four fire torches. As expected, there are days I have stressful freak outs.. but for the most part I'm able to sustain myself on the stilts and keep on preforming. Either way though I'm loving most of it for now. Happy clown.
The point is, even though we have so much to do in life, it's important, to try and find time to enjoy the little things (yes zombieland is an awesome movie, also if you were thinking yolo, please exit my blog now).
The end to my philosophical mumbo jumbo :D
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