Let's feel good in our unbalanced lives

This brilliant and life-changing video was shared with me by a great mentor and I wanted to share it with any of you out there.
https://youtu.be/8OkzozrUEHY
This video is a TEDed discussion by Ted Thurmon about the balance of life. Although this life lesson applies easily to theater, it can apply to anything, any area of life, any area of study in any moment.
On a quick note, let me express how this applies to the life of an actor. The idea of living 'off balance on purpose' is an unusual one, but, ultimately, it makes perfect sense. As an actor, you cannot truly plan your life out in any aspect, because you have a career that is completely unpredictable. There may be months of full-time work and there may be years of none. For me, I like to plan. I want to know exactly what is happening and when so I can prepare as best I can, but that is not how life works. I know that my life is always going to feel somewhat off-balance, physically, mentally, and emotionally because I am an actor and all I do is keep running and giving and going. I do not know what to prepare for, I do not know what is coming next. But that same idea of my life feeling off-balance is what makes my life balanced. If I knew what was next, if I wasn't giving 100% of my soul every day, if I was not an actor- my life would feel wrong, unbalanced. So you find a way. You find a way to prepare as best you can. You remember what is most important to you although those priorities may get mixed up from time to time. You've got to run to keep up with life and to keep that imperfect life balanced. If you don't, you fall. It's like riding a bike- you have to keep moving to stay on. Ultimately, life will never be perfect, never be balanced. That is why we need to remember to be present, to not worry about balancing everything within our life. We need to accept that life will never be the way we exactly want it to and that needs to be embraced. Uncertainty should be embraced, and passionately. That's what will allow us to live a life balanced, or, 'off balance on purpose.'

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