REPACKING IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA

Turn around and look behind you. Now turn around again and look ahead. Now decide which way you want to go. It’s that simple. It’s that hard.

Because you don’t know what might be ahead of you, it might sometimes seem a bit scary to go forward. Meanwhile, you already know what is behind you.

You also know that what is behind you isn’t going to change or improve, it is what it is, or rather, was.

It’s likely that there are new challenges, experiences and opportunities available whenever you start moving forward. To take advantage of them however, you need to make room for them in your life.

Most of us need to work on putting the past behind us, if we ever want to get some distance from it. It usually doesn’t go away from us by itself. Each of us seems to carry a lot of it around with us.

In fact, most of us don’t put enough of it behind us, but instead seem determined to carry it around with us everywhere we go. 

We definitely can’t walk away from the past if we insist on carrying it around with us.

  

It can be pretty heavy, but most of us probably don’t notice that too much because we’ve been carrying the same weight around for a long time.

We can let ourselves put it down for a while. Only after we put it down are we able to see how heavy it was.

However, if you pick it up again as you leave, you are still going to be carrying around whatever you’ve accumulated. You might notice, however, that it’s a lot heavier than you realized it was.

Nevertheless, just by putting it down you may have started to put some distance between yourself and the past.

At some point you might think about what you have been waiting for all of this time. Knowing this can help you decide that you are ready to move forward again, or even just start off in another direction.

When you are ready, it is always a good idea to consider how much your baggage weighs. Immediately after this I suggest you repack it.

  

You can start by dumping everything out in front of you where you can see all of it.

I can guarantee that you won’t be putting all of it back into your luggage. However, you need to look at it to see that this is true.

Almost immediately you will realize how many things you were thinking about bringing along with you. There is usually quite a lot more than you thought. No wonder it felt so heavy when you picked it up again.

You will realize that you probably haven’t used some, maybe even most of these things recently. Nevertheless you have been carrying them around with you for ages.

You will quickly realize that a lot of it is stuff which you threw into your baggage out of habit. In fact, some of it has been there for such a long time that you forgot you had it with you. You think that maybe you could leave some of it behind, or maybe even throw some of it out. You figure out that you probably wouldn’t miss it.

If you aren’t ready to take anything away at first, you might consider the things that you actually have used recently and perhaps put them aside to repack.

Next, consider that every item which you bring with you, whether you ever use it or not, adds to the weight you will have to carry everywhere you go.

You will now have become aware of how much you had been carrying around with you. You will also have noticed how much lighter it feels now that you took out some of the old or unused things.

  

Perhaps, because of this, you will replace some things. You could bring something else which might be more useful than all of that old, worn out stuff, you used to carry around with you.

  

Repacking is always a good idea. Do it often. You will be lightening your baggage and making the load you carry around with you easier to manage. You will also be leaving some room for some new things you have made some space for in your life.