The Loads We Carry

This is a post I have wanted to write for a long time, even before I had a blog i though that this topic would be something I would want to write about. I have been working down town for the past while and have noticed that people are always carrying so much junk around. Book bags, brief cases, purses, computers ect. Everyone looks sooo weighed down. I came to this realization when I found myself having to carry two cakes, my book bag and my over night bag on the bus, subway, and street car (my daily commute I might add). Being the over energetic person that I am, I found myself committed to bringing a cake to work for a colleagues last day and a cake to the first night of youth. As I struggled through the bustling crowd I realized that the load that I was carrying for that one day was what most people were lugging around the city every single day of their lives. Now I know I may be heading down a bit of a corny road here but I just can't help myself.

As I was heading to work I began to think about all of these people and their heavy loads they were carrying and thought about the fact that these external loads may very well be symbols of their internal weight. These people work so hard at their jobs and on their fashion every single day, and for what? To try and make that internal weight go away. To feel lifted up. Ok I need to intervene her and let you all know that I am not pointing any fingers here and I am coupling myself right in there with these people, I mean come on Two cakes... really.

My thoughts kept swirling around in this out of control spiral and I began to think of the homeless people and how they have their grocery bags and grocery carts full of garbage. This too is their symbolic load. I just felt really broken. We don't need to carry a load, there is someone to carry it for us, we just need to realize and accept that. All of us. And the question is how do we let people know this? Maybe we need to help people carry their loads sometimes, 'mine is a little lighter right now, why don't you give me some of yours' It's just a matter of being open to doing this, to helping.... and helping anyone not just friends.

I'm sure there are ways of helping that I'm not even aware of. So I guess I'm saying I want to be open, to being taught how to help... and help anyone...