Baggage

     Have you been flying on an airplane somewhere lately?  Forget the fact that you will probably have a lot of work to do to get a decently priced ticket for the flight you are also going to pay a hefty fee for those extra bags that you want to take with you. 

     It’s true that most people try their best to pack as lightly as they can so that MAYBE they have ONE checked baggage and a carryon bag.  But that’s not always possible.  You can only do the best you can and then the airlines are going to begin adding those extra fees to the cost of your flight.

     Many of us have the same problem going through life on a day to day basis.  We have things that have happened within our past that for whatever reason we cannot or WILL not let go of.  Regardless of what the “baggage” maybe we continue to carry it throughout our lives.  This really becomes an extra burden upon us and we will PAY for carrying that baggage for a long time.

     What we need to do is learn how to “let go” of those emotional weights and lighten our load.  If things have bothered us in the past we need to face them for what they are, deal with them as may be necessary to do, and then set them down and stop paying those extra “fees” of quilt or remorse.

     No one can do those things for us.  We certainly can have support and assistance as may be necessary, but we are the ones who must make the decision to put those things in our lives “aside” and NOT to pick them up again!

     If we can master this necessary aspect of our lives we will be much happier and our required load will become lighter because we will not have all that extra baggage to carry around.

     It may take some time to get the various events of the past into a controllable “container” that we can then set aside and discontinue carrying the heavy burdens they represent, but the benefits to do so will far outweigh the efforts that will be necessary to get it accomplished.

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"If you find that your problems have dug you

into a hole, the first thing you have to do is STOP digging!"