Carrying around way too much Baggage...in my 10lb purse!

Short and sweet...I promise.

I was reading a short article on women and their handbags on suite101. This article noted that a report by Daily Mail found the contents of many women's bags weighed somewhere between 2.5 to 5kg. That is 5-10 lbs!!!! Of course, the take-home message here was that we can cause severe long-tem skeletal and muscular damage to our bodies. But the first thing that came to mind for me was...if we carry that much baggage around on our shoulders...how much more baggage are we carrying in our minds?

So I took a moment to look in my own oversized bag of the moment. The contents are below:

1. Love in the Time of Cholera (book...a big book)
2. A brush
3. A little pink change purse
4. A make-up palette (Bronze Pop...eyes, lips and cheeks in one)
5. A camera and its case
6. My head scarf
7. 8 pens
8. A belt
9. Vitamins
10. Mascara
11. Eyeshadow
12. 2 notepads
13. house keys
14. car keys (even though I took the train today)
15. My Mac foundation
16. My ipod
17. My phone
18. My planner

I am sure that my purse is leaning closer to that 10 lb mark...and the entire train ride, I was thinking about....just about...everything!!!

So I am going to take a moment...and I invite you to do so as well. Take a deep breath and convince yourself...that whatever is stressing you isn't really that deep!!

If it is a "man-boy" or bills or some hurdle that you just can't see over...breathe it out...(possibly look for a salsa class or a yoga class to join for cheap)..and try again.

I'm out!

--Miss Danie B.