Why do we as women always feel we have to fix everything? Make it all good, handle all the problems, make our children happy, our spouse/significant other satisfied, our bodies perfect. We carry the weight of the world. For some reason we as women feel the need to make everything all right.
A friend was telling me about a poem that talks about a young girl pulling a wagon with a few things she has on her mind to work on. In the poem as she gets older the wagon gets heavier and heavier as it loads up with problems and things she wants to fix. Finally she is an old woman and the wagon is so heavy with all the things she has accumulated over the years, she can hardly move it. At the end of the poem someone says to her as she is dragging and pulling this heavy wagon..."why don't you just drop the handle and stop pulling?"
I absolutely love this idea, what if we stopped trying to take on the world and fix everything. I know it won't be easy. To be honest, I am not sure how much I can personally do but even if we gave one issue away think of the load off!
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