Tension and compression… somewhere in-between the answer lay.

If life were a thread, one too taught would be boring and straight, perhaps too stressed or just monotone, with no ups and downs or variety of emotions or experience. On the other hand, one with too much slack would be a big jumbled mess. No direction, no meaning, just random chaos throughout the body and mind.

So rather than be too tight or too scrunched, a beautiful life might look mildly loose and wavy. Fluxing between states of activity and rest, creativity and contemplation, aspiration and meditation.

It’s a journey after all, and how meaningful would the story be if there was no winding thread to follow?