Don’t Carry the Weight of the World on Your Shoulders, Just the Weight of This Moment

Jeff Valdivia
Nov 4 · 4 min read

And then the next and then the next…

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For many of us, we feel the weight of the world pressing down upon us. We feel the weight of our expectations, our desires, our commitments. We feel the weight of other people’s expectations, desires, commitments.

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