Inner Equilibrium

I believe everyone in on the face of earth is trying to find the so called peace while living in this fast paced world. I see peace as an abstract feeling of inner equilibrium. Peace is like sitting in a garden listening to sounds of flowing water with no negative emotions on your mind. But this calming and a lack of threat feeling is slowly diminishing within the fast pace society. We all want to establish a calming inner equilibrium, by working on ourselves, exposing ourselves to the optimal environments, coming up with rules in morality that we follow to avoid guilt. But is peace really reachable when the values of the society change towards the materialistic, the constant simulation of internet, and social media to escape the temporary of real life problems?

Often I find myself going through a smooth week, with accomplishments at work, finishing all errands on time, great conversations with friends, like my life is going great. The suddenly Boom! A clogged sink, and Boom! work gets out of hand, and Boom! a friend is upset for my absence of some social outing. By then the inner peace is thrown off balance, and the mental mindset is back to coping with the negative emotions while learning to appreciate life at the same time.

But what if this feeling of having small issues in my life waiting to be solved and/or tolerated is actually the inner equilibrium. What if the percentage of life is actually spent more on taking care of small raising problems than on enjoying the zero-stress occasions? One of the life goal that I learned as the life years build up, is that one develops more toleration for the miscellaneous life problems that comes and goes. Problems with water bills, banks, or taxes comes and goes, and eventually we will all see them as errands to do as oppose to life-threatening issues. Such inner equilibrium is established through years and years of toleration, instead of through the competition of all life's issues at one time.