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You see that thing they say, "When the rain stops falling the umbrella becomes a burden", I practically experienced it firsthand today. Lol.

It has been raining up and down for a while now. Just this week I've gotten home drenched up to two times, and today I knew it'd be no different if I didn't take an umbrella. Sure enough, it started drizzling and I was covered.

On my way back from school though, the weather had completely cleared, so the umbrella was practically useless and, apparently, a burden.

As at the morning it was such a lifesaver, but afterward it was just something added to my stress.

It made me think about how quickly our perspective changes.

The very thing I couldn't stop appreciating a few hours ago became the same thing I was complaining about carrying. Not because it had changed, but because my circumstances had.

It's just like I say quite often, how we don't realize the extent of the promise we're making while we're making them. The umbrella becomes a burden because it was taken with the mindset to solve an immediate problem, I should be eternally grateful for the sheer privilege to walk in the rain and not get drenched.

Dearest reader, I hope you never become so accustomed to your blessings that you start calling them burdens. I hope familiarity never robs you of gratitude, because sometimes the only difference between a blessing and a burden is the season you're looking at it from.

The umbrella didn't become less useful, it simply wasn't raining anymore.

Some things are only valuable for a season, others only feel like burdens because we've forgotten why we picked them up in the first place.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.