2007 vs. 2008 - Part two

This morning I went to have breakfast and tea at one of the coffee places here and was reading a book about Buddhism and was also thinking about what I have written yesterday. And realised that somewhat for me the last year was also a year of becoming empty, of off-loading a lot of things from myself.

I wrote about the cycles of life yesterday, that I feel that my life is going through cycles. And realized that during the part of the upward cycle we accumulate things and shape ourselves. It is like flying with a hot air balloon and gathering objects and experiences in our gondola. However at a certain point our gondola is full and we do not fly upwards with our hot air balloon. At one point our experiences and learning and life tops on a journey and we just float and instead of flying high, we seem to land in a place, being dragged down by all the things in our gondola. This landing is the downward cycle and we might choose to land, or we might choose to continue our journey.

But in order to continue our journey and go and fly again, we need to get rid of some parts of our past, of some parts of our souls. We need to off-load some of the stuff from our gondola. And that is very hard. We are afraid of loosing what we have gathered. But if we want to fly high, over the rainbows, then we need to offload. Somehow 2007 was a year for me where I was offloading a lot of things, maybe that's why I felt that it was fairly hard. I was getting rid of the extra weight from my soul, my gondola, and becoming lean again to be able to fly high.

And now I am already flying, I am empty, I am light, I am looking forward to fly to another level and gather new things in my soul/gondola. It is a good feeling and I feel the winds of change blowing in my face while I am flying with my hot air balloon.

P.s: It's not the DHL balloon! That is not a hot air balloon, but a sealed helium balloon, tied down with a rope, with limitation to fly up to 150 meters only. No rainbows there, just a nice view.