We have something that accompanies us throughout our lives to those places where we go and that, at some point, we wanted to return, is a piece of luggage that makes us special because it has the measure of dreams, illusions and, above all, attachments with those we travel with when we decide to leave.
In our luggage we carry our emotions, which vibrate from within, and the people who provoke them, then it is not easy to observe, but it is there, it comes and goes at a rhythmic pace with every step we take, and it says a lot about who we are.
“The effect of people making my heart beat like the first time. “-She Fitzgerald-
The bonds we maintain make us unique emotionally and spiritually, because they show the personal relationships and the degree of emotional contact we have with them, so we like to remember experiences with loved ones who stayed away when we left: because we take them close, in our hearts, in the form of love and nostalgia.
You arrive at a train station, go to an airport or get in a car ready for a new experience, lasts months, years or even hours, because in the same way we will prepare our luggage.
Then we will think about loading it with material objects that cover what we think we need: clothes, electronic devices, documents and, depending on the length of the trip, even souvenirs such as photos or postcards. After that, we all went through the farewell moment.
They are called insignificant farewells, as if we leave people who stay and do not accompany us physically, we do not usually let go, it is not thrown away, we do not let others go, we all know why this type of situations the farewell hurts so much.
“Are we saying goodbye to the other side of the world so that even if it takes us a long time, we want to go back?[?]
Elvira Sastre
Precisely because in this station or airport we turn our backs on someone in the hope of re-embracing them as soon as possible, these farewells are hard because in the end they never were: they are the hooks of a affection that will last in time. Ties protect us from the cold where we have come and avoid emptiness and loneliness.
Going somewhere else and leaving your house is a very brave attitude, because it involves putting you in positions where we have no experience and, as if that were still not enough, the people who usually help us when we have problems will not be able to do so. help us in the same way.
When the trip is long, you discover, for example, that within that baggage full of emotional ties with which you had started the adventure, everything begins to filter, that is, we realized that some of those fleeting goodbyes may not be exactly that, or that we had packed people with whom there weren’t many connections.
You’re still holding out, but she doesn’t anymore, we add up and remove the volume of this luggage. And, in the end, we understand that there was no room for everything, that the material was the one that occupied the least space, and that the more weight it can bear, the firmer it will be.
I suppose, through those reflections, we settled in a place and, after living there, we affirm that the house is inside and not outside, in some physical house. When we get back, we look at the people we tell them?and it’s in them where we see the house, the house, the gas.
Once again we are joining the emotional bonds that we already had and adding those who now accompany us to the journey we have just made. After all, there’s always a drink waiting for us with a friend we made a long time ago. , a hug to give this college roommate, a conversation with the stranger you talked to on this trip and whose memory accompanies you on rainy days?
“The quality of the trip is measured by the amount of memories you accumulate. -Benito Taibo-
It will be our luggage, and so we will give it to others: we will not talk about the clothes we wear, but we will call it relentlessly, it is yet another demonstration that love and affection remain in small pieces of heart. and carry with them others: invisible, they unscreose us and make sense of us.
Illustrations by Claudia Temblay.