What does a balanced life mean to you?

A balanced life is living an experience of giving and receiving, of knowing light and darkness, pleasure and pain, etc... Balance to me is to embrace the polarity of life and cultivating the wisdom to see my modes and what stages I am in. I am not saying that the experience of each polarity should be equivalent. Attempting this would be maddening. However, to appreciate and know my personal edge supports me in my expansion. Knowing how far to creep near my edge without falling off is a great exercise in learning life balance. Sometimes I do fall off my edge loose balance. Other times I am fearful or too timid to explore my edge as it relates to a given thing or idea. This is when I am most out of balance. This is where I have created procrastination, work-a-holicism, disconnection, aggression, lies, excuses, mountains out mole hills. This is all out of life balance for what I say I want to experience of myself. So, I get to notice the behavior that I consider out of balance and make a new choice which is to live my edge authentically and experience myself as a mindful tightrope artist ever expanding and improving my practice.