Grace Massoud wrote this article in MTV Website:

A few articles back, I wrote about the five pillars of wellbeing to live your best life, career, social, finances, physical and community wellbeing. The glue binding them all together being religion or a higher purpose. I feel that elaborating on this subject is a must so as not to overwhelm my readers. It is a fact that being on track in three out of the five pillars constitutes a good balanced life. You needn’t have it all figured out to be a fully functioning adult. 

If you have a good job you feel happy and excited to get to every morning, where you’re doing something you enjoy day in and day out with passion and motivation, you go home to your loving partner every night who drowns you in affection and tender loving care, and your health is sound with all your organs functioning as they should allowing you to stay active, consider yourself lucky. 

If you’ve got your finances in order, investing and saving properly, you feel happy and content with your environment where you’re free and at ease to be yourself and you have a wonderful family, a great support system at home constantly cheering you on and wants to see you win, you’ve got it made. 

It’s a no-brainer that we tend to over-complicate things and be in our heads too often. Striving to have a healthy balance in your life will help you salvage your sanity in these trying times in Lebanon. Who here isn’t suffering from the constant barrage of bad news? Who here isn’t wondering when this craziness and downward spiral of our economy will come to an end? The collective Lebanese trauma seems only to be increasing since our parents’ and grandparents’ days. You see it all around you on the faces of the numbed and mostly depressed, unstable, or out of their wits Lebanese people.  

The only savior is gaining that balance and finding joy wherever you can. It is the key to a great existence. Finding pleasure in doing things you feel strongly about, living fully in the present while denying distractions like hell and laughing as often as you can. Despite all the hardships, all the setbacks, all the worries and all the exhaustion from not being able to lay down any plan for the foreseeable future. They’re the secret weapon to enduring and coming out the other side of any crisis.