With very little time in a day that we spend awake, life can seem like a complicated juggling act. Most of us have more balls in the air than we can handle. We drop a ball from time to time even more or less depending on how balanced or unbalanced our life is. Some of the balls are more important than others, dropping the important ones can be disastrous. While dropping the less important ones might not matter at all. It helps to think of our responsibilities as glass or rubber balls.
A juggler would never want to drop a glass ball because it would surely break. But he would know that its not a disaster to drop a rubber ball. I would like to think of our family as a glass ball, a person would never want to disappoint our family because they are important. Rubber balls on the other hand won’t break and can bounce back when needed. For example, work would be the rubber ball you can drop it when you are home with family and then bounce it back in your hand when you are working.
For balancing family and work it might appear easy to discern which responsibilities are glass balls and which are rubber. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love and compassion. These principles tell us that our marriages and families come first. When we make them our top priority, it will be easier to balance the other responsibilities in our lives.
The Essay on Families Play an Important Role in the Future of a Child
Susan Lieberman, a Ph.D. psychologist, once said, “Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.” It is true, that families indeed play an important role in the future of a child. Families nurture a child, and mould him or her into who they become in the future. Families are the support and ...
