lighten up, you!
When someone says to me, ‘I don’t want to be a burden,’ my response is, “Then lighten up!” I say this to myself as well. Today, I don’t feel light at all – the reverse: I feel heavy, dense, and a burden. Various reasons, mostly a dream I had that made me sad. So I let myself feel sad for a while, and then I took out my jump-rope and jumped for a while. (A trampoline works too.) I find jumping and leaping gets us out of a place of gravity into a place of levity. It helps us to lighten up, especially as we get older. Try it.