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Now, let’s come to this week’s conversation.
Sahdev, remember him?
We spoke of him last week.
And what of Lasha Talakhadze? Do you know him?
He’s neither a Pandav nor a Kaurav.
But he’s quite famous in some circles – for the same reason as Sahdev.
He’s the record holder for lifting the heaviest weight: 484 kg.
While Lasha carries physical weight, Sahdev is just like you:
He carried more metaphorical weight on his shoulders.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that’s not healthy.
And the problem starts when you forget that you’re carrying so much baggage.
But like Sahdev, we’ve grown used to our weight.
You may perhaps take pride that despite carrying so much weight, you’re still walking forward.
Dear heavyweight, I hate to tell you this, but tolerance to pain is not a badge of bravery.
Don’t you wonder why things aren’t getting better?
Things don’t change unless there’s a deep dissatisfaction with how they are right now.
Don’t like it? You’ll automatically take efforts to change it.
Sahdev tried to drink away his troubles. His family suffered anyway.
You and I have our own weights and problems.
Irrespective of what we do, some of it is going to stay with us.
But the wonderful part is: that we don’t necessarily have to carry it ourselves.
I think this invisible coolie-service is called ‘wisdom.’
Handing over things that we can’t control to better manage the things that we can.
But what do we really control?
Toh why not let it all go?
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