Heavy Baggage- Rabbi Yoel Gold

he says i got to tell you i brought this story it could happen to any of us but he just noticed it he said he was flying from chicago to l.a chicago airport to lax and he said he gets to the airport in chicago you know this self-checking in chicago airport besides the self-checking you also have this scale you can check in your luggage too on your own basically you put your suitcase on a scale the computer tells you how much it weighs and if it's overweight it charges you an extra 25 dollars and then you go drop off the luggage it prints out that sticker you put it around your suitcase you drop it off at the check encounter on your own so this guy mark handleman his name is he drops he takes a suitcase he takes the circus and puts it on the scale and the computer tells him look it's two pounds overweight you have you have to give us your credit card for another 25 dollar fee he says what am i going to negotiate with the computer so it's worth it to wait online and negotiate with one of the the people behind the counter so he takes a suitcase he goes uh he waits online and he gets this for this woman who tells him look two pounds overweight you got to pay 25 dollars and he looks at her and tries to generate some compassion that doesn't work he takes out he takes it if he thinks he opens up a suitcase and he has a pair of shoes and underwear takes it out puts it in his knapsack and then puts the suitcase again on the scale it was a half a pound overweight she tells him it's 50 and a half take out something else and he thinks i should have stayed at the computer but anyways he's like are you serious so takes it off again and this time he takes out whatever's on top of the suitcase he takes out a pair of pants a pair of pants with a belt stuffs it into his into his knapsack his carry-on whatever he's taking the plane he puts the suitcase on the scale again now it's 49 pounds he gets upstairs to the gate and he goes over to one of the people he says what's going on he says well the flight is overbooked and they're looking for people to go and stand by you or to like be bumped and mark thinks to himself he says i'm not in a rush what are the offering so he goes over to the uh to the teller behind the counter to the uh whatever to the to the flight attendant behind the counter and says you know what do i get if i fly tomorrow morning instead of tonight she says we get 500 we'll give you extra legroom tomorrow we'll give you a free hotel for tonight it says it's worth it sign me up he says okay great says one thing i need my suitcase for the night can i get my suitcase it says oh your suitcase is already on the plane but we'll save it for you in lax in a room and when you get to lax you'll have your suitcase i need to change your clothes and this is oh one second there's somebody downstairs that gave me a hard time and i had to take out a pair of shoes underwear and a pair of pants with a belt i'm good at that moment i realized that sometimes people give us a hard time downstairs we have to wait look at the upstairs to find out why but if we notice just simple in our life just simple just simple simple everybody has them everybody has brought the stories no question about it look out for the hashem in your own life and you'll start generating some emotion some feelings of wanting to be close wanting to sense like this particle in your life more and when that happens and when you start yearning desiring wanting that more then you know you're on your way to contributing to building the best