What about FINITE capacity?
// April 12th, 2007 // Brain Dump, The MINeD Field
I heard the phrase “infinite capacity for love” the other day, and as usual, my brain dropped a gear, took a hard right around the corner (nicely hitting the apex), and was off in another direction… oh, and if you’re not sure of my analogy on that one, you might not want to get into a car with me… 
Ok, so if we have an infinite capacity for love, is the same also true for hate and general negativity? Well, logically, I would tend to agree, and whether or not it’s good for you is a topic for another post. Now, what if we DECIDED to have a FINITE capacity for things which are ‘negative’? No, I’m not going down the positive self-talk, banish negative from your life, etc. etc.. If you’re not aware of those yet, go read some other sites/books, try it out, then come back to this post.
Think of it this way: negative ‘stuff’ (hate, thoughts, emotions, people, and so on) comes into our lives quite regularly, and at some point we need to actually deal with it, correct? Well, the moment you have to deal with it, guess what, it’s in your life so the whole ‘eliminate negative’ doesn’t quite fit all the time. Ok, so what if we had a predetermined finite limit for negative stuff?
UPDATE: I had a really great analogy using marbles and a bathroom tissue tube (proximity of tube to toilet worked too), however, I think the ‘baggage’ one works best. If our stuff is in bags (hence baggage), how many bags can we carry? If another bag is thrown at you, AND YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT, you’re going to have to put one bag down to pick up the new one. Ideally, we would like to have a guy with a uniform, little hat, and a cart following somewhere in the distance dealing with it, however, for now we get the joy of dealing with our own bags…
Right, so then how does this apply to my everyday life because I’m tired of reading this stuff and not knowing what to do with it… I hear you.
How many bags CAN you carry vs. how many you THINK you can carry? What bag do you need to put down and how quickly can you do it? There is likely one, right now, that is digging into some sensitive fleshy bits that would be really nice to put down about now, but for whatever reason, we think it would be a good idea to carry it a bit further… Hey, who needs circulation/blood-flow when we’ve got bags to carry!
It all sounds rather silly and simple, yet when we hear “leave your baggage at the door”, we don’t think it applies to us.
Right then, so how many bags would you like to carry, and what’s the next bag you’re putting down?
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we all have baggage that we need to put down or at the very least rearrange after prioritizing. Sometimes other people either take it from us, or simply knock it out of our hands through their actions. Then the choice we have is do we let it lie, or do we try to pick it up again?
I’d be inclined to let it lie… ESPECIALLY if someone has been able to ‘knock it out of our hands’. We tend to hang onto things a bit too much at times, so my thought is that if someone can wrench it from my clutches, more power to ‘em – if you can take it, I’ll let it go!
William, I really like the finite capacity of bags image. And this was a very helpful post for me (particularly following the Great Circle post you commented on). I’m very grateful for it.
It made me realise that I’m carrying too many and filling the ones I have with too much garbage. I think that (rather than just empty the bag so you can fill it again) your challenge to limit the bags and drop one of them has the potential to transform life.
Maybe I need to “go bush” for a while, put down the bags and pick up a fishing rod or a pencil and sketchpad…
BTW, new look for your site is awesome!
Hey Pete,
The timing on your blog post was great! I was remembering the whole being vs. doing thing yesterday and working out some concepts around it – and you beat me to it!
It would seem that you’re looking at some things in life quite seriously lately, and if something I’ve ‘said’ helps, then I’m glad to be a part of where ever it is you’re going!
“rather than just empty the bag so you can fill it again” – brilliant distinction!!!
(thanks for the feedback on the site!)
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