Let’s imagine that you go to workout with a friend. You notice that they picked up dumbbells at the beginning of their workout. Now, you’re walking home post-workout and they are still carrying the dumbbells. Eventually, they start complaining about how much their arms are hurting and you tell them to put down the weight. They look at you in disbelief and ask, “what weight?”

There is a weight in this world that’s invisible. Sometimes we pick it up to make us stronger but then forget to put it back down. And because it is impossible to see it with our eyes or touch it with our hands, we eventually assume that the weight is just a part of us.

Over time, the heaviness may propel us to rearrange our lives in a way that accommodates the weight. And while the adjustments may alleviate some of the burden, we become strongest when we realize that we owe it to ourselves to put the weight down.