Jake Burhans compares holding onto anger, sadness, guilt, and worry to carrying a heavy backpack you can remove anytime. The absurdity: complaining about the weight while still wearing it. His point is that emotional burdens are optional and can be released instantly.
Walking around all day long angry about an event that happened 2 weeks ago, worrying about some future event, sad about something that happened 2 months ago, is like carrying a heavy backpack and then complaining about carrying a heavy backpack. You can just take the backpack off. You don't have to keep holding on to it, right? Let the anger go. Let the sadness go. Let the guilt go. Let the worry go. You don't need to be carrying it.
