Dip or Drown
Work life balance has become a major topic of discussion in the past millennium years. There is a constant tug of war between the people who manage it well and those who struggle to maintain the balance. Over the past few years, the pendulum tilts more towards the latter.
With the advent of remote working the personal life gets tangled with professional life. Some people are able to define their boundaries while others difficult to draw their boundaries thereby falling prey to their work.
The perfect analogy for work and life balance would be tea and biscuit. Not all might follow this but every one of us would have come across this process of consuming biscuits by dipping them in tea. Many people like this as the tea adds flavor to the biscuit when dipped into it. If you have keenly noticed, the dip should be only to an optimum level else if it is being dipped for a longer period the biscuit get smudges and breaks itself into the tea glass. Only a regular person consuming it will know for how long it could be dipped to prevent from breaking and this comes out of constant practice.
The same can be applied to our work life balance as well, our life is the biscuit and the tea is our work. We should immerse ourselves into work till the threshold where our mental sanity and personal life is stable. There is no purpose if your work drowns your life. If the biscuit breaks into the tea glass then it becomes polluted and difficult to separate. Just the same way, your life will become difficult to retrieve once you trade your mental health and personal well-being to your work.