Teeter Totter

    It is amazing what you can learn from the simplest children's games. Looking around in a children's toy box or at the local playground, you can learn so much more than just how the game is to played. You can see life lessons all around. If you look, you can find out how to share, how to play fairly, how to win or lose graciously, or even how to wait for your turn.
     For me, life is like a teeter totter. On one side, you're dreaming with your head in the clouds. On the other, being grounded too long makes life stagnet. There must be a shared push of give and take. When both sides are trying to live in the clouds, each side cannot live in harmony (balanced) with the other side. When you look at the major and minor arguments in this world, each side wants to be grounded in their beliefs.  When each side starts to fight to be grounded on their side of the teeter totter, the teeter totter beaks in two. After that no one gets what they want. The ideal is to take turns dreaming and being grounded. To compromise is the only way for both sides to continue to play (survive).