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 am an outside person I have been since I could remember, when I would go outside you would usually find me in the pool or over in the Lot and in the Creek. The creek was and still is really fun, walking up and down finding cool stuff and making stick weapons and pretending to fight in the army. The Creek was fun, but it was also scary at night when you could hear stuff moving, but you couldn 't see it, but despite the scariness of the Creek I ended up having some of the best times there when I…

everyone was impressed with my knowledge. How could such a young girl find interest and that much knowledge about something as manly and mature as cars? I loved shocking people at every car show by talking about something other than the flawless paint. Eventually I was like a walking almanac. I could name just about every make and model when I saw it, I would throw out facts, talk about engines, horsepower, exhaust, torque, cams, superchargers, etc. I was finally able to speak car language,…

These cross walks were clearly marked to drivers and pedestrians with white lines and yellow crossing signs. Vehicles were considered to have “stopped” when they approached but did not cross a crosswalk when a pedestrian was on the first 85% of the crosswalk (no more than approximately two white lines from the end). Vehicles that were “not stopped” approached and crossed the lines of the crosswalk while a pedestrian was on the crosswalk and no more than 85% of the way across. Pedestrians were…

After he told me that it kind of relieved me but I was still upset on the fact I came up to kill a deer and make my dad proud. It was almost time to get down and head back but we heard something walking behind us in the water so my dad picked me up and put me in his lap because I was too short to see use the shooting rail. I got in his lap and got the gun ready, I was so nervous I had the tree shaking it felt like. We were waiting and it walked out to the right of us about sixty yards. I took…

Robinson then approached me and asked if I would go with them to the hospital. I graciously accepted, knowing I was not capable of driving at the moment. For the next hour, not a word was spoken. The only sound in the car was the subtle rumble of the engine and the occasional sniffling from the continuous crying. Finally, we arrived at the hospital and anxiously ran to the front desk. “We are looking for Casey Robinson,” Mrs. Robinson managed to choke out. “Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, can I…