Tightrope walking

Secrets to Living a Balanced Life Have you ever been on a circus, watching a tightrope walker? Obviously, the only thing he’s stepping on is a rope. As he shifts his body forward, his hands are gripped tightly around a balancing pole. He has to walk from one end to the other. Above that, he is also balancing another pole on his chin and on the top of that pole is a plate. Just like the performance of a tightrope walker, life is very much a balancing act. If things start to drift off balance, we’re only just a step away from a fall. Carrying our purpose, we’re trying to move forward to reach our goals, all while trying to maintain the different elements of our lives in balance. What Does It Mean to Have a Balanced Life? Whether we work, study,…

Gordon 5 destroy to create an adult?’. The depressed person, however, is the inversion of child and adult in that they tread the traceable threads back to childhood, against the forces towing the line towards adulthood. The child garners much glee when they begin to walk: “‘Now we have heard enough of the tight-rope walker; let us see him, too!’”. A ‘tightrope state’ in the ethical imprisonment of the ‘child’ (the ‘self as other’) and ethical administration by the ‘adult’ (the ‘self for other’).…

In Fogelin’s book Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal, Fogelin claims that any forms of reason or logic should all be left to their own devices and between themselves through 1) skepticism and relativism and 2) rationalist metaphysics. On many different issues, we as thinkers and philosophers are exposed to opposing extremes to a common disjunctive principle. Fogelin in his book does forfeit the idea that some choices are unavoidable, and in many cases, we…

The fundamental peril of philosophy is to become entrapped in notions that are merely conceivable, without realizing that these same notions have no bearing on reality, that is they are not possible, and being conceivable does not make them so. In his book ,Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal, Robert Fogelin leads the reader through an argument of whether or not we can ever adequately answer any question that comes to mind. His approach is interesting but…

It was cold and windy too, also the ground was a hundred of feet underneath me. I knew I had to do something, and I wasn’t about to make someone come up and get me. I closed my eyes and just started to walk forward. Step after step I thought to myself “what did I get myself into”. Finally, I was at the end of the rope. “Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid”- Invictus like in the poem Invictus, I…

I have anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. I have to take Lexapro and Seroquel for these mental disorders. I felt if my mother would have been more of a mother to me, I would have been able to avoid this whole situation altogether. Having had my hip reconstructed made it hard for me to work throughout my life. I had difficulty standing and walking. I had to get on SSI to have an income. My quality of life was nonexistent. I was always ashamed to walk because of the limp. Even…

Automobile Banned Society The automobile has been a part of an American life. Even though the manifest functions of the automobile is just a tool of transportation, latent functions of the automobile such as business and entertainment of automobile became important in American Society. If all cars were banned in the United States, the elimination of the automobile would affect social, cultural, economic arrangements in the American society, and also, some adjustments will be required to…

I look across the table at my best friend. The worry on her face is apparent; I know that she is having second thoughts about this wedding. She has been thinking about Jimmy, and I know she misses him. “Sadie, trust me, you will do great.” I tell her. “There is absolutely nothing to be nervous about.” She runs her fingers through her hair and taps her foot nervously. I walk around the table to stand behind her and fix her now frizzy hair. “You can’t ruin your hair yet. You still have to walk…

looked at me straight in the eyes and told me to get back in my car. Oddly enough, I started walking to my car, even though I did not want to. It was as though my legs were working against my brain, like she was controlling my mind. I couldn’t control my own actions. I got in my car and she quickly followed, telling me to drive her to the town cemetery. Unwillingly I accepted her request and tried to turn on my car despite several previous failed attempts. I was very surprised to see that this…

That day twenty years ago started like any other day, I woke up, got ready for school, ate breakfast and left to meet my best friends Jamie and Christine so we can walk to school together. What I didn’t know is in a split second my life would change my life forever. The memories of that day are still a little fuzzy, it feels like mini clips from a movie. I remember it was cloudy and drizzling on that day. I was walking along talking to my friends. Then stopping at a busy intersection waiting…