Balance

The world is obsessed with balance and harmony, as though things being equal or balanced were itself a natural good, a basic truth that is never questioned. But there is no necessity that a being inherently has for balance in everything, as far as I know. Existence doesn’t demand fairness, balance, or equilibrium.

What imbalance seems to violate is simply people’s idea that something should be balanced. But it’s not necessarily true. There isn’t always a yin for every yang, a good for every bad, a success for every failure. There is only what you cause to be and the results of that work. If you do more good, you have more good. If you do more evil, you have destruction and unhappiness. The “universe” will not turn around and then make everything all right for you, because that’s simply not how things work.

In fact, it’s probably not even good to hold everything in equilibrium at all times. What fun would that be? How would you ever get any challenges? For somebody who is presently overwhelmed, a calm state of balance probably sounds pretty great. But I assure you, eventually you would find something else to do, some way of unbalancing that equilibrium.

So not only does the world not demand balance, in fact, beings will probably demand some level of imbalance if you look at it over a long enough time scale.