"You have to let go of the past to get to the light."--wandering beach character
Imagine yourself walking along the beach in the morning's light with the sky spread wide with hues of pink, yellow, lavender, baby blue, and a diminishing half moon. Upon your back sits a lightweight knapsack filled with the worries of your day. Well, it's only earlier morning, so the back is hardly noticeable. As the sun heats the packed sand you walk on, those thoughts rapidly begin to fill --over-fill--that pack. You know, the kind of stuff that shapes your every habit, thought, habitual catch-phrases, or patterns for accomplishing tasks. The sun is scorching your skin now in the late afternoon. Your backpack is too heavy to carry. It's off and you're now dragging it through the sand. Guilts, shames, fears, worries, lies, self-badgerings, unrecognizable packages, the eczema that only comes on the right side of your face when stressed shows up, even Brian and Belina, the mean twins from next door when you were 5, sit on that sack. Nothing falls off. The pile seems endless in the sky. By the rise of bright white half moon, you sit exhausted by this pack/pile towering beside you. Your eczema is seeping and encrusted with seashells; there's a bulge in your left ankle; someone's screaming at you from inside the pile; old school papers, where you made your big red F's, in paper airplane form, buzz all around you; someone keeps pulling your hair; and a scale rings in your climbing weight repeatedly.
Have you had enough of this yet?
Instead of pulling issues around day in and day out, one could just face them, I mean, really get down to root of why it is shaping a you that's rather far off from your truth. By addressing the root, it'll make the load lighter because you're pulling those nutrient straws from sucking your life away. Uprooting them seems more logical than hacking it them down by limb just to watch them spawn the same havoc in another form. It's only as important as the attention you feed it. It does take more effort to dwindle down the load. It also takes belief in oneself, love of oneself, and patience. You can do it. Don't let the past continue to burden your present. Live your own life.
Imagine yourself walking along the beach in the morning's light with the sky spread wide with hues of pink, yellow, lavender, baby blue, and a diminishing half moon. Upon your back sits a lightweight knapsack filled with the worries of your day. Well, it's only earlier morning, so the back is hardly noticeable. As the sun heats the packed sand you walk on, those thoughts rapidly begin to fill --over-fill--that pack. You know, the kind of stuff that shapes your every habit, thought, habitual catch-phrases, or patterns for accomplishing tasks. The sun is scorching your skin now in the late afternoon. Your backpack is too heavy to carry. It's off and you're now dragging it through the sand. Guilts, shames, fears, worries, lies, self-badgerings, unrecognizable packages, the eczema that only comes on the right side of your face when stressed shows up, even Brian and Belina, the mean twins from next door when you were 5, sit on that sack. Nothing falls off. The pile seems endless in the sky. By the rise of bright white half moon, you sit exhausted by this pack/pile towering beside you. Your eczema is seeping and encrusted with seashells; there's a bulge in your left ankle; someone's screaming at you from inside the pile; old school papers, where you made your big red F's, in paper airplane form, buzz all around you; someone keeps pulling your hair; and a scale rings in your climbing weight repeatedly.
Have you had enough of this yet?
Instead of pulling issues around day in and day out, one could just face them, I mean, really get down to root of why it is shaping a you that's rather far off from your truth. By addressing the root, it'll make the load lighter because you're pulling those nutrient straws from sucking your life away. Uprooting them seems more logical than hacking it them down by limb just to watch them spawn the same havoc in another form. It's only as important as the attention you feed it. It does take more effort to dwindle down the load. It also takes belief in oneself, love of oneself, and patience. You can do it. Don't let the past continue to burden your present. Live your own life.