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In the Middle...

Oreo Double Stuff Cookie.
Oreo Double Stuff Cookie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As I mature…no, let me start over – as I get older…nope, that won’t work either.  As I get wiser – yeah, that sounds good.  As I get wiser with time, I am trying very hard to live my life in moderation.  The definition of moderate is:  average in amount, intensity, quality or degree.
Anyone that knows me will tell you that I am not a moderate person.  I usually am very much at one extreme or another.  (Please keep in mind here that I am not talking about politics, ok?  I really don’t want to talk politics…there’s plenty of that going around right now!)
Moderate for me means taking it easy.  It means not eating the entire plate of pasta or loaf of sour dough bread.  Moderate basically means “in the middle.”
Now, I guess if you’d ask my sister, being the middle child isn’t all that great.  (I’m not sure why – she was older than me and could boss me around.)  There are some great things about being in the middle.  Like the stuff in an Oreo cookie.  Or, in the case of location, it is where the Hobbits live - in Middle-earth.  There are some pretty good songs with the word “middle” in them, such as “Stuck in the Middle with You” or “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road.”
We hear a lot of talk about the Middle-Ages and I know that for most kids, Middle school is merely just a strange place between being a kid and becoming a teen.
That in-between, in-the-middle, moderate position just seems so logical.  Grown up.  Sane. Reasonable.  Boring.  I guess since I’ve spent most of my life living more on the edge, the middle is almost too safe.
There is a lot to be said about being safe and sane.  Every group needs a logical person – the voice of reason.  The one to hold you back because the cops might be called.  And there is a lot to be said about the extremist - the person that sends out the energy and raises the endorphin level.
I guess the balance here – the “middle-of-the-road” answer is that the way this whole world ticks is that the people that are the “voice of reason” and the people that are the “live on the edge adventure junkies” need each other.  Without each other, there would be no balance, no middle, no safe place. 
So, even though I am older, more mature, balanced wiser, it does not mean I have to change who I am at the core. (Ironically that also means in the middle.)  I am grateful for the Debbie Downers “voice of reason” people in my life that have kept me from jumping too fast or too far.  I do believe, in the end, they will be grateful for me too – to show them that it really is ok to jump at all. 


Submitted by:  Karen Kelly, Bleached Blond Mind

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