Tina Turner once said, "Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”  Seeing how powerful Tina Turner is I am fairly sure she has purged her unhappiness.

I so agree with Tina’s statement.  It is amazing the things that we can come to carry around with us in life.  Unhappiness with others, unhappiness with our life situation, unhappiness with work, unhappiness with our self…all these things weigh on us until we start to become more the sum total of our weight than our true selves.   The accumulation of this weight can be insidious…it creeps up on you a pound at a time giving you the impression that you can handle it in that small amount…until it accumulates and then you can find yourself lost underneath it.  Once lost, your life can become just a matter of moving through the days without really thinking about what a gift each moment can and should be…without the appreciation that time lost is not recoverable.

I have been lost underneath the weight at times in my life…I get it.   I think most folks have experienced this in their lives at least once.  The key is not to belabor the point that you are lost beneath the weight, the point is to recognize it and shed it.

So if you are carrying this type of weight around – shed the weight – choose happiness – choose freedom – choose creativity – choose to be your true self.  We never really know how many days we will have in this world – don’t spend any more of your life weighted down – find out what it feels like to be free. 🙂

Day three hundred and fifty-three of the new forty – obla di obla da

Ms. C