Travel Light...Travel Long

I have always been an advocate of minimal luggage when traveling. As 18 years of realization passed me by it slowly dawned upon me that this concept of traveling light can help you travel through life's rocky terrains better. A lot of people I know would grapple for support across slippery slopes of life, nimble footed, fearing a fall; (I was one of them too...) the reason being our excess baggage which weighs us down. My mother, a wise woman, has always advised me not to hold grudges. She always backed it up with the following reasons-

• Holding grudges only reminds you of the wrong done to you. 
• Holding grudges makes you unhappy because it constantly reminds you of  the above
• Holding grudges prevents  you from living your life to the fullest because you hold back a portion of what you really are
• Holding grudges prevents you from celebrating the many other good qualities a person may have
• Grudges=stress=heart diseases=short life=grieving loved ones, while people who are the root cause of this are not affected

As a teenager, these things never made any sense. I mistook her for being weak willed and 'unworldly'. But, as I said, the last 18 years of realization have told me she was right on this account.  So, I've pretty much learned to ditch the excess baggage and travel light through my journey of life. I'd be lying if I said I travel empty handed all the time because, sometimes do find a bit of baggage lurking around in my heart, yet none so heavy that I can't unload when I think of my mom's words.