For Days When You've Taken On Too Much | The "Colander" and Draining Your Heart🧺✨
~You don't have to take it all in; the important things will stay~
Before you know it,
there are days when you've taken on so many things🫧
🍴Someone's words
🍲The atmosphere of the moment
🍴Requests
🍲Little worries
Sometimes you even end up
storing away emotions that
weren't even yours to begin with
deep inside your heart🌙
"I have to take it all in properly🥹"
"If I let it go, I'll seem cold-hearted😯"
You might have days where you think like that
and try to keep everything
inside your heart.
But,
a heart that has taken on too much
slowly starts to feel heavy.
Welcome to the Heart-Alignment Restaurant🐰🍽️✨
Today, Chef Usakichi has once again
prepared a kitchen tool that will gently
nestle close to your heart🍳💛
What I'd like to introduce today
is the kitchen tool that gently drains water,
the "colander"🧺✨
A colander has
many tiny gaps,
and through those gaps,
the water flows away smoothly.
But,
the important vegetables and noodles
stay inside just fine.
Instead of taking it all on,
keep what is necessary,
and let what is meant to flow away
just flow away😊
A colander
seems to do nothing, yet it plays
a very important role🧺🌿
Our hearts
might be a little similar.
We sometimes
take in too many of someone else's words,
read too much into the atmosphere of a room,
or feel as if someone else's mood
is our own responsibility.There are times like that.
But
I think it's okay not to keep
everything inside your heart🍀
🫧Someone else's bad mood
🫧The heavy atmosphere that was flowing in the room
🫧Words you worried about more than necessary
🫧Worries about a future that hasn't happened yet
It's okay to let those things
flow away little by little.
Just because you let them flow away,
it doesn't mean your kindness
will disappear.🍀🐰🍀
In fact,
by letting flow what needs to be flowed,
you might be able to keep
what you truly cherish inside your heart.😊
Chef Usakichi
gently lifted the washed vegetables into the colander and
said this:🐰🌸
“You know, there are days when the heart
needs to be drained, too.
It's okay not to take everything in.🐰
Because there are things that flow away,
sometimes it becomes easier
to see what is truly important.”
The reason a colander has gaps
is not because it is broken.
✨To let water flow through
✨To keep what is necessary
✨To make things lighter
I think it's okay for your heart
to have a little space too🐰
🌈You don't have to be someone
who can take on everything
🌈You don't have to remember everything
🌈You don't have to keep
someone else's emotions inside you
Your heart is not
a place to store all of
someone else's burdens.
Today, try remembering
the colander of your heart just a little💕
Keep the words you want to keep
Keep the feelings you want to cherish
And gently let go of
the things you no longer need to carry...💐
I think it's okay to have days like that too😊
Thank you for reading
until the end today💐
May the burdens accumulated in your heart
gently drain away little by little,
leaving only what is truly important
to remain warmly within you🐰🍽️🧺✨
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