Running with Rocks

I started a tradition sometime ago that has helped me with my running and probably my mental health too. I run along a dirt road that borders a sugar cane farm. A year ago, I was dealing with a problem. It's funny but I can't remember what the problem was now. I only know that at that time in my life, I was truly affected by it.  I was at the start of the dirt road and I just didn't want to run.  I wanted to wallow in self-pity and feel upset about what was going on.  That's when I looked at the ground and thought about all the rocks on the ground.  I looked at them as my problems.  For that day, I picked up a large rock and started to run.  As I ran, I thought about what was bothering me and turned that rock over and over in my hand.  I hate running with anything extra.  It took a lot for me to start running with a hat on because it felt like it was something to hold me down.  This rock was ever present and a little annoying but it made me really think through what was bothering me.  After 3 miles I decided it was time to turn around and head home. That's when I decided to drop the rock.  I said that as I dropped this rock, I also dropped all the worry and stress that went with it.  I was leaving it behind out there on my run and heading home.  I've done this evertyime I have a problem nagging me.  I now have a nice pile of rocks out there at the mile 3 marker.  For most rocks, I don't know what the problem was.  I know that I truly left the worry out there.  That pile of rocks reminds that no matter how big I think the problem is, in a few weeks, I won't remember what the rock was for.