"Now this is going to be a little difficult, so stay with me. How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff you have in your life, and start with the little things; things on shelves, in drawers, the knickknacks. Then start adding larger stuff; clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your tv. Backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home, I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.
Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office, and then you move into the people that you trust with your most intimate secrets; your brothers, sisters, your children, parents, and finally, your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend. You get them into that backpack. Feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake. Your relationships are the heaviest components of your life, all those negotiations and arguments and secrets, compromises. The slower we move, the faster we die. Make no mistake. Moving is living.
Some animals were meant to carry each other, to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We're sharks."
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