Let’s Go Green
Scene 1 – A couple is travelling in a train. Suddenly a passenger jumps in with his luggage. Even after the train starts, he keeps holding the luggage on his head. Couple is surprised…
Wife: Why did the train stopped?
Husband: It’s a station…couple more to go before we reach our destination.
Wife: Oh…okay. Look at that passenger who just jumped in.
Husband: Hey…what are you doing? Why are you still standing with the luggage on your head? It’s so funny.
Passenger: It’s “my” luggage… I have to hold it.
Husband: Right… but since the train is moving, you can just keep it down and wait till you reach destination. It’s not going to run away and you don’t have to stress yourself unnecessarily. You can get to it whenever you need it anyways.
Passenger: Don’t laugh at me. Look at yourself. You are doing the same thing with your ‘past’ in the journey of life anyways! Have you ever let it go? Aren’t you stressed all the time due to it? I am not doing anything different!
Couple: Wow… we never thought about that! Thank you for giving such a wonderful insight!
NARRATOR: This is so true… it was not necessary for the passenger to hold on to his luggage on his head while in transit. Likewise, we flow through journey of life with so many events, things, challenges and visions. But for some unknown reason we keep holding to our past incidents, grudges, frustrations. It’s like luggage draining our energies and preventing us from being in the moment! We have to let it go, so that we can see things in clear light and be with the present!