Prompt: What’s in your backpack?
Today, in my backpack, I lightened my weight.
It took a week to pack, unpack and prioritize. What used to be a figurative burden full is now just a simple pack. What can I truly carry with me? Discovering weight that is proportionate to my physicality.
What used to be in this backpack?
Everything that ever was—a 300 pound back sack. Full of worry, doubt, fear, experiences, mistakes, failures and accomplishments. All shoved into this unbearably heavy back-breaker of a bag.
Then it occurred to me to put it down. You don’t need to carry it with you everywhere you go as people watch me plop it down in each room you enter. Thud, “Hi, I’m Noel.”
Today, what is in my backpack?
A few essentials and I walk with less of a lean. What’s in my backpack today? Not as much. I am learning to pack and unpack it daily. All I know is today it is a bit easier to carry.
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