The Burdens we can carry.

Cutting The Strings That Hold You Back

Recognizing your behaviour patterns

As we walk through our own pathways in life, we collect stories, sayings, and experiences and build our lives on them.  They serve as a memory bank and a reference library that stores data, principles, and situations which help us handle various situations by comparing them to past references and drawing up comparisons and conclusions.  These references generally determine our behavior patterns and usually relate to our accepted and normal way of doing, seeing, thinking, and understanding our world.   

Once we recognize our own negative behavior patterns and how we react to some situations and recognize the effect they have upon us and we make a conscious effort to change, we have at that moment taken the first step towards a better life for ourselves.

Unload the burdens from your past and take positive steps toward your future

This is a story of an old man and a young boy who lived long ago.  The old man was named Thomas and the young boy was named Simon.  Simon was an orphan, who made his way from village to village in search of food, shelter, and a dry place to sleep.  However, more than that Simon was searching for something else ~ a reason. 

Why he wondered do we travel throughout our lives in search of something we cannot find? Why must things be as difficult as they are?  Do we make them ourselves, or is it meant to be that we should struggle as we do?

These were wise thoughts for a young boy.  Traveling on the road one day and contemplating his thoughts, he came across an old man named Thomas who was traveling the same road, and whom Simon thought would be able to help him with an answer or two.

The old man was carrying on his back a large, covered, woven basket that appeared to be very heavy, especially for someone as old and weary as he.  To Simon, it looked as though the old man carried all his worldly goods in that one basket.

Simon offered to carry the basket however the old man politely refused.  “What is in the basket Simon asked”?  “It is nothing you can carry for me,” the old man said.  “This is something I must carry for myself and added one day you will walk your own road and carry a basket as weighted as mine”.

Over many days and months, the old man and Simon walked many miles together and Simon would ask many questions about why we must toil as we do.  However, Simon did not learn anything from the old man.  Sometimes late at night Simon pretended to be asleep and would lay there quietly listening and watching the old man sort through the contents of his basket.  In the morning the old man as always would say nothing.