Leaving the Weight

I’ve been watching this YouTuber on his life travels lately. He’s done a fair amount of things and spends his days now in the desert with a bicycle. His documentaries are shorter spurts of creativity, solitude, and just finding himself. Over and over again. If you listen along you’ll find he has done an amazing variety of things. From Colombia to Alaska. A writer on life. Someone that wonders a few things. One I think is the weight. Not so much his backpack or his saddlebags on the bike. More like the weight he carries. There’s a sense with his work and play of letting go yet still holding on. The invisible weights sometimes are the most onerous. They keep us locked down and maybe always wondering the what if questions. Those can carry the most and make our mental and soul shoulders sag. Some I know would question making any change in life. The weight in there overcomes them and they doubt themselves. But we go through life sometimes as spectators. It is like someone else directing…