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Leaving margins versus living life on the edge


Leaving margins versus living life on the edge

When concentrating on our theme for the month, Sustainability, the Coronavirus scenario is still uppermost in my mind. What is it that we learnt during these months of lockdown?

I was reminded of a theory of mine from yesteryear. Theory? No, I suppose I should call it a mere thought. It concerns margins. A learner’s exercise book has a margin on the left, and any Word document has four margins (that is, open spaces) top, left, right and bottom. Open spaces so that the written or typed words won’t run off the page into oblivion…

It strikes me that I, as an adult in this world, must make very sure that I have margins in my life. If I want to live a sustainable life, that is. And what does sustainability during the pandemic mean to me? It means building margins into my life to protect me from harm.

Living on the edge may be exciting, but not exactly sustainable.

Living within my margins, I should be able to contain, uphold, stretch my resources and not deplete them. Resources such as my energy, my time, money and spiritual resilience. Sustainability looks at the long haul. Like living a marriage from wedding to widow.

Sustainability during this pandemic means stretching my energy to last a home school day and eking out my available dollars to choose wisely which power foods will see my family through the week. I must allow for God-time and me-time and remember that physical exercise tones body and soul.

Without margins my energy, dollars, inner life and physical state could run into a scrambled mess of frayed nerves, depleted food stock and flagging muscles. Will I then be able to tackle the future, going for the long haul? Not likely.
Margins are like breathing space; loosening the rope that threatens to strangle me. With margins in my life I am buffered from falling off the page. So… Imagine with me that those margins are like huge soft pillows cushioning me from injury. Without them I would come to harm. I would not be my sustainable self if I lived on the edge, without margins.

May you, too, plan for and find margins to cushion you against adversity.

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