We all carry baggage... you know, those left over, unresolved issues of human interaction. Most of our baggage we accepted without any thought. 'They' said..."you're this" or "you're that" and we just said "Okay, I guess that's right." 'They' are the bodies outside ourselves, either actually in-the-flesh people or images of people that comes to us through some technology.Live life as a passenger, as a tourist, not as a baggage 'handler'.
Its never the first person that states something that has the power. The power in any situation is the second voice, the voice that validates the first. With the baggage that any of us pick up is done with the power of the second voice, ours. Ours when we accept any outside judgement of who we are, what we are or our intrinsic value.
Our baggage gets really heavy and difficult when we let ourselves become both voices... the voice that negatively judges us and the voice that agrees. Sometimes, we become so proficient at accepting judgements that our baggage literally paralyzes us and our lives become about managing our baggage. We no longer can see our path, our talents or our opportunities. We become baggage handlers, pushing and putting our never ending suitcases in different order so they will all fit in the dark hold.
We need to wean ourselves from this dreary existence. We need to strive to be passengers in life, looking out the windows. We need to be tourists, stopping here an there to experience the vast and wonderful differences in our world and those who people it. We need to travel light with just a carry-on case... you know, the ones that fit easily in the overhead bin.
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