Lifting one light bag, we travel

I've been thinking about all that I want to do online, and feeling a bit overwhelmed. I've also started watching others, particularly those younger than myslef, those who grew up with the internet as part of their daily consciousness. Seeing how younger people move online is instructive, though unsettling. They move with greater speed and agility, and also seemingly little concern for how they position their words and impressions. I am much more deliberate, yet in that deliberation I have too much hesitation and too much uncertainty.

I'm noticing that I need to drop the weight of my own expectations, to put down that weight and travel lighter.

I am resetting my expectations. Its time to unpack my bags.

This reminds me of a poem I read many years ago.

"the photographs, saved so long,

now placed neatly in the trash,

casting off belongings, no longer of need,

lifting one light bag from the street,

and cutting our hair,

we travel"

(unknown)