“I’m holding up, so much more than I can carry.”

"Then set it down."

"Then all will be lost."

"Says who?"

"This is true. I'm my own person. I will set it down to relieve myself!"

"Don't!"

"Why not? You said to."

"I did no such thing. I asked who told you to hold it. For surely, if someone you loved or God, Himself, said to carry it, you should carry it with joy and gratitude. But if a stranger or your enemy should ask you to carry it, then you are not obliged."

"But it is so heavy!"

"Is that a bad thing?"

"I will get tired and fail!"

"Only if you don't want to carry it anymore."

"So, I shouldn't?"

"No."

"So, I should?"

"No."

"I hate this conversation tell me straight!"

"Every day, every moment, every second of this life, you will carry all types of things. Heavy. Light. But regardless, you will carry. But you also have a choice. If you carried everything through life, your legs and arms will be weak to do anything else. If you carry only carry what is easy and light, the first heavy thing thrown to you will surely crush you."

"So, what do I do? How do I choose?"

"Carry only what you need, so that you can help other people carry theirs as well. And when this life ends, be sure the things you carried are worth the trip."