“Balance“, Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein’s Academy Award winning animated short, is one of AxisPortals’ favorite animated films, and it’s a good one to ponder in January.
After all, balance is a perpetual problem, isn’t it? We constantly strive to balance the professional and the personal. When we’re working, we worry that we should be spending more time with our families, and vice versa. Technology makes the balance both easier and much harder to strike. If we’re with our loved ones, but constantly checking our Blackberries and iPhones to ensure that we haven’t missed a single professional communication, then are we really focused on our families at all? It’s perfectly possible to be physically present at a meeting, but totally absorbed in texting our teens about their crises of the moment, or to be physically present at home but so totally connected to our workplace technologies that we might as well not be there at all.
AxisPortals loves “Balance” for perfectly capturing the intricacy and delicacy of any balancing act that involves others (as most balancing acts do), and for suggesting the price we must pay when we attempt to put ourselves (our needs, interests, and passions) too much at the center of things.
AxisPortals Aphorism One (Courtesy of Confuscious): Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
AxisPortals Aphorism Two: Being thrown off balance is an essential and inescapable aspect of cooperative relationships.
AxisPortals Aphorism Three: Balance is a Delicate Dance
Posted by Kathy 
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