The search for balance

Wa is a Japanese word meaning harmony and peaceful...being in harmony with one's surroundings and at peace in one's mind, balanced internally and in tune with your surroundings. 

This is one of my favorite quotes and it comes from the book Immortality by the Czech-French author Milan Kundera:
"Path:  a strip of ground over which one walks.  A highway differs from a path not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another.  A highway has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points it connects.  A path is a tribute to space.  Every stretch of path has meaning in itself and invites us to stop.  A highway is a triumphant devaluation of space, which, thanks to it, has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.  Before paths disappeared from the landscape, they had disappeared from the human soul; man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it.  What's more, he no longer saw his own life as a path, but as a highway, a line that led from one point to another, from the rank of captain to the rank of general, from the role of wife to the role of widow.  Time became a mere obstacle to life, an obstacle to be overcome by ever greater speed."

So this is about striving to find the harmonious balance of positive and negative within and without.  Too much positive results in a lack of drive or desire to improve.  Too much negative results in Leaving Las Vegas.  And yet, that process does not lead to any destination on a map or box which can be checked, it is the journey itself, the path, that is the reward.

Plus some dumb shit and whatever else I decide.