Life is a Dish

A metaphor we've all heard. "He's just got too much on his plate". The metaphor can be expanded upon, however. Life is commonly called a balancing act. Life is almost like trying to keep a plate balanced on a stick. Sometimes you put too much on one side, and you have to take some off, or put some on the other side. This is huge with time management and athletics. When you have a lot to do, you have to balance all of your responsibilities, so that every thing and everybody gets their due or needed attention. With many sports, you have to sometimes make a certain motion more extreme to teach your body to do the motion correctly when you're not thinking about it. You always have to keep in your mind the final, correct motion, so that you don't keep doing it so extremely. This is like temporarily raising your dish, so that some falls to the other side to balance out that part of your plate. If one side of your plate is raised, another side falls. Similarly, if you start doing something more than is right, you also start doing something less than you should.

A perfect life is a level , well balanced one.