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Life is a Tightrope Walk

English book, p. 355

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Life is a Tightrope Walk Life is, indeed, like a tightrope walk. If you lean to one side, you are bound to fal. So save yourself from leaning to one side, and maintain a balance between the two sides. This is the only formula for a safe journey in life. L ife is like tightrope walking. Tightrope walking means maintaining your balance between two opposite positions, proceeding very cautiously so that you avoid either of two equally bad situations. The word ‘tightrope walk’ was initially coined for an act of entertainment, that is, a tightrope is a tightly stretched wire or rope fixed high above the ground which someone walks across in order to entertain people. But the spirit of the tightrope walk, i.e. maintaining a balance between two opposites, is a great principle in real life. You like sweet items but your doctor says that you are diabetic, so you have to avoid sweets. In this case you will try to find a balance between your desire and the doctor’s advice. At home, you experience a disturbing situation, but when you are in your office, you feel that you have to deal with office affairs with a cool mind, so you try to find a balance between two contrary mental states. You are walking on the road, and some scooter

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