Why is it that we set goals to lift heavy things? In all areas of our lives… we are working to lift that heavy weight, carry a few more pounds, increase our goal from last week. What about when we don’t want to lift heavy things. Our lives should not feel heavy, but the reality is sometimes we can’t avoid the heavy.
We are delivered packages that we can’t pick up… or sometimes we have to pick them everyday even if we don’t want too, what if we just want to drop the package and just say forget it. Will we ever find out what is inside? Is it all the heavy things in life that someday turn into light? Do we work hard at lifting heavy things and then one-day things feel light? Or do we keep piling on the weight? And when things are light, are we fulfilled? Satisfied?
Maybe there is a different type of heavy? Heavy that is given to us as a lesson and a heavy that we induce on ourselves consciously and unconsciously to improve and grow as individuals. What about our bodies feeling heavy or light? Our hearts? Our minds? Our souls? Is feeling heavy something we need to cure or is it about embracing the heavy… and learning.
Drop the negative meaning of heavy and look at the glass half full of positive life lessons that we are always working on lifting up.
So true! There are so many different meanings to the word "heavy" in life. Sometimes I feel like I'm always adding on a few more pounds - with new commitments to friends, events, new responsibilities, at times this is what gives me LIFE and sometimes I feel it gets too heavy and I just want to "drop the package." Great reflection Clur :)
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