Upright
Ten sticks, arms full, view blocked. The Ten is the load taken on one reasonable piece at a time until it stopped being reasonable. Some of it isn't yours, and some of it was never necessary.
Reversed
Reversed, either you're putting it down at last, or you're refusing to and calling that responsibility. The second one is worth being honest about.
If this is your card this month
What are you carrying that somebody else could hold?
A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.