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Once upon a time. A monk traveling from one city to another. He boarded a train and took a seat but he bag he carried with himself remained setting on his head.
His fellow traveler were surprise to see this and ask him why he was still keeping his bag on his head. The monk said he did not want to add to the burden of the train which was already over loaded. The fellow travelers were amazed and some of them started to laugh. They were thinking that this monk is foolish. Then some of them said to the monk. You seems to be a crazy person, even if you carry the load on your head. If is going to be a load on the train. Then why carry on unnecessary burden on your head? Is not it foolish?
The monk burst into laughter and said my friends, I am only carrying this visible bag on my head but you people are carrying the burden of so many worries and troubles on your head that which cannot be seen with these eyes. Then the monk took off the bag from his head and put it dawn. He seated himself and said you guys are laughing of often seeing me carrying bag on my head. But have you ever thought about yourself? I have put this burden of mine down. But when will you guys take the burden to worries off you head.
If we see in our life, we will find that we all do not know how much burden of worries we are carrying on our head, worry about study in childhood, worry about job, careers, marriage in youth, worry about our children, worry about disease and death in old age. Our whole life is spend carrying the burden of worries on our mind. Worry comes when we think of negative future possibilities. We spend our time and energy thinking about negative thing that could happen. But interestingly most of the things which we worry about, never happens. In fact, worry is a reflection of a lack of faith that life will be good to us. Worry reflects a lack of faith in oneself and a lack of rust that we will be able to deal with difficulties. Therefore, instead of worrying about what you cannot control. Shift you energy to what you can create. Because whatever is going to happen will happen whether we worry about it or not.
We are here on this earth for short visit. We do not know how much more time we have left. So instead of worrying about our future we should live our present happily. And always remember that worrying does not take away tomorrow’s trouble, but it takes away today’s peace.
