balance

they say that everything in life should be done in moderation. ive also heard that everything tries to find its own equilibrium; that is, in nature, things seem to regress towards to the mean. yin and yang, light and dark, this and that - there are just so many opposing pairs out there which manifest themselves in the average, the in between, the neutral. well the point is that in many things, we are also encouraged to practice such balance in our lives. the question is, is the middle truly harmony? how much should we be tending to this model?

well for things like health, moderation is supposedly good. take a bit of everything and you cant really go wrong. i suppose the same can be said of almost every endeavour. they say too much of a good thing is... well a bad thing. but ultimately, is such restraint actually constraint? perhaps instead of trying to find the centre, the focal point, we should be indulging in both extremes? doesnt this also create a neutrality due to the mutual negation of polar opposites?

heh, personally i think its an interesting idea - to dab excessively in both light and dark - to get the best of both worlds perhaps?and a more thorough understanding of either? of course i guess this could be harmful in more ways than one. firstly from a moral standpoint, one should focus on doing jus the good, and ignoring the bad altogether. perhaps psychologists or whatnot wld say that such behaviour leads to the polarization of self as well - a split personality perhaps.

i guess at the end of the day, the question is moot, but life wld be so boring then, wldnt it. heh. after all, what is life but a search for new sensations?and how much of this can be achieved by 
constricting oneself? i say, why go for the mean, when you can go for the extremes and still reach the same product.