A friend of mine, now gone to heaven, once said to me “you pack your issues in your suitcase”. I guess that is why they call it “baggage”.
Our baggage can be filled with issues of a negative tilt, but it can also be full of the things that bring us joy.
The things that have define us from a positive aspect: the love, and comfort, and connection and memories that we have accumulated over our time travelling
through life on this moral coil.
A word association I played with for this article went like this.
SUITCASE: bag, travel, clothes, heavy, leather, wheels, lock, airport, school books, travel tag, full, movement, set, combination, open up, ownership, stuff (personal),
needed, required, useful, all I need, caring, pulling, holding, keep close, essentials.
The things that have define us from a positive aspect: the love, and comfort, and connection and memories that we have accumulated over our time travelling
through life on this moral coil.
A word association I played with for this article went like this.
SUITCASE: bag, travel, clothes, heavy, leather, wheels, lock, airport, school books, travel tag, full, movement, set, combination, open up, ownership, stuff (personal),
needed, required, useful, all I need, caring, pulling, holding, keep close, essentials.
CHERISHED: toys, pets, soft, old, comfort, attached, kisses, hugs, needed, all I need, keep close,
full of love, full, holding, carrying, essentials.
full of love, full, holding, carrying, essentials.
So it seems to me that the key word is 'essential'.
Reflect on what is essential to you and you will find that its the things that bring you JOY.
JoyDay, every 25th November, every year...
