Your Baggage - Time to Unload

Just imagine having to literally carry your baggage everywhere you went.  Not luggage for a trip or a move.....your baggage.....you know that relationship you have with your family, your boo, your ex boo, your boo's mama and the rest of their crew.  The baggage you carry because of your baby's daddy or mama, your boss, the folks on the job or at your school, the man or woman you married and their baggage.  Think for a moment.......we talk about the bag lady...Erikah Badu sang about her, but it's true.....we talk about her and her baggage.  Each of us carry our load every day to and from work, in and out of our house, from relationship to relationship and then we add......us!  Bad mood, think we too good mood, better than the next one mood.....or wait, I would have been better off without you mood, I don't give a @#@# mood.......Baggage.

Now some of us become the baggage checker.  We check others baggage.  We get all in it, rip it apart, unpack it, separate it by topic or issue....yeah we get so involved with their baggage....we carry their load and ours.  We carry it so long that we don't even realize some of the baggage we're carrying belongs to some one else.  Granted we're loving folks, caring folks, the scripture even tells us to help others.......now that you're experiencing baggage overload you want to unload your baggage on someone else.......and if you can't get rid of it........that frustration, aggravation, becomes your sick and tired song a daily anthem.  The wrath is put upon anyone who tells you.....it's not that bad, smile the day just started, or simply have a good day.

Imagine meeting someone and you see the baggage surrounding them.....visualize some of your friends, family members, co-workers, church members and their baggage standing in front of you.  You'd take a step back only to trip over your own baggage.  Yes we all have it but like that luggage you take on a trip......you only pack it when you're traveling and you unpack it when you return.  The items get put in place until you will need them again.  Unpack that baggage, communicate with those who have burdened you with their load, simply give them back their load.  Don't carry what is not yours.  Don't attach yourself to their issues, their belongings.

Your baggage is enough, you don't need others........unload.  Get rid of what you no longer need to carry.  The ex has been out of your life for years but you still hold on to his opinion of who you were.  You've accepted the new job, the new position but you talk about what responsibilities you had.  Your friend borrowed money and never repaid you.....this was five years ago.  Whoever, whatever, whenever.......let it go.....unload. 

Just Venting!!