You're Not the Savior of the World

Weekly Prompt: if your burdens are too heavy, you're carrying things you shouldn't be carrying.

I’ll be completely honest with you - the past two weeks have me feeling like I’m barely keeping my head above water. This doesn’t happen to me often - thank goodness, so when it does I really struggle.

I’m tough, I have been through things in this life that bury most people in a bottomless pit of self-pity and victimhood. I’ve been slathering on a thick coat of armor since childhood and although not ideal, it has done the job for decades. So as I start to soften my heart, allow myself to be vulnerable and begin to shed these coats of armor in a quest for peace, it is startling to feel overwhelmed by things that are a far cry from catastrophic.