The Baggage Botheration

We all come with our own baggage, a past we can’t let go, a past that won’t let us go. We keep lugging it around wherever we go, things we are not necessarily proud of. Oh well... things we definitely not proud of, things we would rather forget and move on, but end up holding onto it, things that clings on to us. These come in all shapes and sizes and quantity, and the deed decides its weight, how much it weighs us down.

Let’s face it, we are not perfect, and perfection is not we seek, we are bound to make mistakes, take bad decisions, show  incorrect judgement. Even when we try to be perfect we are going to make mistakes. We are bound to slip and fall. After all we are only human. We are bound to stumble and fall but that doesn’t mean we carry our failure wherever we may, let it weigh down upon us.

We are emotional fools, often irrational, thinking with our hearts rather than our heads (and for someone like me who loves to over think, over analysis). We are bound to make a few mistakes, ok who am I kidding, we going to make a lot of mistake, take a couple of missteps, move in the wrong direction, keep stumbling and falling leaving us battered and bruised. 

We all have a past, cause we don’t live in isolation, we don’t live in seclusion, we live and experience, we interact and experiment, and in these moments we are bound to stumble, but let not our past weigh us down, cling on to us and bring us down. Sometimes you need to let go of the past to move on, unburden yourself of the baggage you carry around so that it doesn’t bring us down, so that you can soar.

We got stop judging each other on the basis of our past, the baggage we carry. If we judge someone on the basis of their baggage, just remember you have your own too. We got learn to see beyond the baggage, and to the person, rather than what they are lugging around with them. We got see beyond the past, to see the present clearly and look forward to the future. And maybe in our own little way help lighten the burden of each other.