For the restless spirit!

7:15 pm Home Dubai I am back home after a long day at work. As I complete my usual chores upon return and settle into the living room couch this evening, I sense a change.... an impending life change coming my way.  Tick tock tick tock ......The cuckoo clock seems so much louder today; most days, I hardly notice it....  The apartment suddenly seems much larger than my needs.....reminding me that I really must consider moving...soon... There are many things that I have to do, many distractions that would keep me occupied if I allowed it to. But my body refuses to play ball. My soul wants only to brace itself for what lies ahead. I know what's around the bend. I have made a choice. And yet, as the time creeps closer, my heart beats a little faster, my eyes fill up at the slightest excuse, my soul wants to hold on a little tighter before letting go.....and I sense a numbness sneaking in....into my being....as if in preparat...

Dictionary meaning: A balance achieved between 2 desirable but incompatible features, a compromise. In recent conversations with my connects, I have been talking a lot about choices, options, decisions that set me thinking .... and hence this post.  In my relentless search for peace, I have realized more and more the need for such trade-offs. The faster we realize what these thresholds are for each of us, the closer we will get to a more peaceful plane. As human beings, "wants" are natural to us. We want whatever constitutes "good" - a good life, loving and caring family, great job, good friends, great car, good food, good times, etc. We want to keep what's working well for us and we want what looks good in other's lives as well.  "I want to be able to travel as often as she does.."  "I wish my life was as carefree and bohemian as his..." It's all too easy to want more, to look outside of ourselves and what we hav...