"Why on earth are you bringing along those seven suitcases???, and you say, "because everything I have and am, are in those bags!!"
So off you go into the restaurant and you need two extra chairs to sit your baggage on. After dinner
you two decide to go to a movie. Well sure, you drag your baggage to the movie and need to pay for two extra seats to pile your baggage onto. Everywhere you go and in everything you do, you are carrying those seven bags of your life along with you. Never realizing that if you took the time to unpack, you would not need most or all of the items you have been
lugging around. But, by never looking into your baggage to see what can be taken out and stored away, you continue to lug these things around with you all the time.
Now your all of your friends are noticing and sometimes, do not want to bother being around you, knowing they have to deal with the seven bags of your life that you refuse to let go of. After a while, you even get tired of carrying these bags around but for some odd reason, you can't let them go.
Those mementos, or life experiences, were put there to learn from and to use when you needed them. But once the past has moved into the past, we need to take with us the lessons of that experience but leave the baggage behind.
There is nothing in our past we can change. Our reflections can only serve us to remind us of what we can change, in the present, to not experience the same outcomes of our past. We do not need to carry guilts
or self-doubts or low self-esteem around with us.
We can only look back and say "been there, done that,
not doing that again!!"
No baggage to carry, only the knowledge of what that represented by that item when it was in our present that has now become our past.
We are never victims of our past. The only times we become victims of something from our past is when we give that situation power over us. We are not victims of "it" we are victims of ourselves and not being able to unpack our baggage and not attach ourselves to it.
Wouldn't it feel great to move around life freely and not weighted down by past guilts or regrets?
The Universe (or God) holds no grudges against you for anything you may have done. Why do we take it upon ourselves to hold grudges against ourselves and our lives??
We are of the God that forgives us and yet we cannot forgive ourselves. We are of the God that has no regrets for anything we have ever done and yet we go through our lives regretting its' circumstances and looking for someone or something to blame it all on.
Take a look into that baggage you may carry around with you. Know that it has served its purpose and is no longer needed and continue to move freely on your journey through life and Spirit.
Blessings to all!
UNPACK YOUR BAGS
LEAVE THEM ALONE
BAGGAGE AND LEAVE THEM ALONE IN THE CLOSET.......
This isn't really such a radical statement. I mean,
really, what is meant by unpacking your bags and putting them into storage?
What I mean to say about this is that most of us do not unpack our baggage from our trips. We continue to carry around our luggage, with us, from place to place.
What is in this baggage you may ask?? OK, I'll tell you...It is our past!! It is our guilt!! It is our self
esteem!! It is us!!! It is our life that we have lived that has brought us into our present time.
I know it is nice to have some mementos of our journeys to reflect back upon to remember those
"good times." However, when we look into those
bags that we carry around, seldom do we see any good mementos. What we carry around with us mostly, is those "not so good times." We carry them throughout our live no matter how heavy they seem. No matter how much we know our past drags us down and impedes our progress, we just cannot let
go of those guilts and regrets.
The things we pick up on the journey of our life are for us to remember and to learn by so we can make progressive steps into our future. But when we carry guilts and frustrations and regrets we are not learning from them. We are letting them be a weight upon our shoulders that, at times, may seem to heavy
to carry.
Imagine that you are taking a trip to Europe or Asia or some distant place that you want to travel to. So you pack up all your essentials into, let's say, seven suitcases. You pick up your airplace tickets and you are off on your journey.
OK, now it has been some time and your trip is coming to a close and you have to return home.
So, you get back on the plane and some hours later,
you land and catch a ride back home. You enter your home and start getting busy doing whatever, but you don't unpack your bags. You leave them sitting by the door.
The next thing you know, you get a call from and a friend wants to take you to dinner to catch up on things. You say "OK, come-on over and pick me up." A few minutes later thefriend arrives at your door and suggests a place to go, you agree, pick up your coat and you both start walking to the door. You both get down to your friends car and the door is opened when suddenly your friend looks at you, quite surprised.