I’ve spent the last couple of years missing a dear friend who I had inadvertently disconnected with during the busy humdrum of life.

Navigating a new normal in a Covid ridden world became quite consuming and somewhere in the midst of this quagmire of lockdowns, mandated mask wearing, isolations, vaccines and new variants of Delta and Omicron, I let a valued friendship slip.

I was disappointed at losing my way. I had started to sweat the small stuff. Things were glaringly out of wack. I knew that I needed to nourish my soul with my bud in tow once again.

As the longing for reconnection with my bestie persisted, I knew I needed to prioritize meeting again soon as the void I felt kept increasing and my well-being continued to erode. The fog in my mind and heart increased and clarity of thought and feeling was being hindered.

Aren’t we all guilty of neglecting soul nourishing and healing friendships that despite being so important to us get taken for granted, that don’t get prioritized, that weaken and that we stand to lose forever.

I realize that I have to rescue this friendship and in turn myself. To this end, I have resolved to show up for myself each day with the intention of reconnecting with ‘Balance’! You see my friend ‘Balance’ has been sorely missed and I need ‘Balance’ back in my life.

So how do I get back to reacquainting myself with ‘Balance’? Given the passage of time spent imbalanced, will this reconnection be difficult? I don’t yet know. What I do know is that I am determined to try to achieve a reconciliation with ‘Balance’ by putting in the work daily – I aim to strive to achieve a healthy balance between needing and wanting, between working and playing, between speaking and silence, between movement and stillness, between resting and doing, between going somewhere and returning home, between adventure and safe harbor, and between quantity and quality.

The passage of time will tell what level of success I achieve.

Although fresh starts can happen at any time and not just at the beginning of a new year, having contemplated how imbalanced my life had become, I have used the start of 2022 as a marker for me to devise and execute a plan to reunite with ‘Balance’ and make this valued friend a big priority in my life again.

As I set an intention to welcome my friend ‘Balance’ back, I also hope to make more time for me, for a select few who sit in my inner circle of trust, for learning from the wisdom of others, for fun and adventure, for rambunctious laughter, for meditation and prayer, for quiet, for appreciating the colors pink and blue, for furry friends, for sustainable living, for expressing gratitude, and for the arts be it music, movies, photography or painting.

I know that sounds like a daunting list but then, as they say, ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained’ – so I’m going all out to reach out to ‘Balance’ and to nourish my soul and if I achieve one quarter of my listed intentions, then I reckon that 2022 will look pretty darn good upon reflection when in a year from now the clock ticks over on December 31st from 2022 to 2023.

Here’s to a year for bringing back balance metaphorically and maybe even literally!

(Images in post via Pixabay)