We all have baggage. If you’ve been to a baggage claim at an airport, you will probably have seen lots of baggage on the conveyor belt at a stretch innit?
Everyone has different kinds of baggage. Some bundle up all their belongings when embarking on a journey in really fancy boxes. Some, designers. Some, really large boxes. Others, heidous or dirty looking boxes that couldn’t be more obvious. It doesn’t matter what kind of box you have. Baggage is baggage.
Sometimes, we need to get our baggage checked before proceeding on our journey, and you will be judged by what you have in your bags or boxes. I don’t know if you attended a boarding high school that had checkpoints all over on the day of resumption. Well, I sure did attend one. Our hostel managers and teachers would stay at different checkpoints to ensure our baggage didn’t contain any sort of contraband. Sometimes, they would even go as far as bringing out our personal items one after the other in the presence of others waiting to be checked in. When I say ‘others’, I don’t mean just your mates but also people you may never have spoken to in your entire life. And you will be judged by what’s inside your box or bag. Now, imagine you are waiting to be checked in and this really nice girl in front of you has got this beautiful slash flashy box you all can’t take your eyes off. And all of a sudden, it’s her turn to be checked and Mrs ‘hostel manager’ opens her box , only for you to be greeted by the stench emanating from her box, to even worsen the case, a used sanitary towel was also found in her box. Note that, you would never have known what was inside her box if there weren’t a checkpoint. You would just have seen her as the ‘really-nice-girl-with-the-flashy-box-I-was-literally-dying-for’
I am getting somewhere, please do not get lost. A baggage will weigh you down when you are trying to catch that bus. Now, have you travelled by a bus before ? I want you to understand that some of your baggage would go into the rear (boot) of the bus, while the really light ones would go with you into the bus and eventually end up under your seat probably because the things in them are delicate or essential. So, why do people carry baggage ? Thank you, because they need the things in them.
I don’t know if you have been able to read in between the lines of my ‘baggage’ tale. Well, if you have, then congratulations. For those who still don’t get it, this is all I have been saying the whole time :
I said we all have baggage at the beginning, now this could be synonymous to problems, meaning, Everyone has problems. And then, I started talking about how people package their belongings when going on a journey. The point is that everyone has problems but not everyone is so dramatic about it. Some people hide these problems behind beautiful facades. And if they never unload those problems to you, you may never suspect a thing, you would just be decieved by all the beauty, smiles and glamour just like ‘Aunty-nice-girl-with-flashy-box’ at checkpoint. While others choose to be so dramatic about it, that you could see right through them that they’ve got issues (Well, I don’t blame them. People are different.) Now about the ‘bus’ illustration, it means that since problems are sort of inevitable, we have to decide between the ones we would drop and the ones we would carry on into the bus, because it’s actually hard to forget we have problems. These problems are actually strengtheners.
“Mum left us and ran off.”
“He said he loved me, yet he slept with my bestfriend.”
“She just stopped talking to me for no reason.”
“I sincerely hate Maths. It’s so hard.”
Now, those are some of the baggage slash problems we have to carry about. But really, can you remember when those problems once brought about happiness before they taught us lessons ? I mean, can you remember before mom left, how she used to bake cakes and cookies for you all ? Before he slept with your best friend, you all used to have really long and sweet conversations, right? And wasn’t there ever a time you were able to solve a math sum on your own correctly and you suddenly felt so smart beyond words ? Yeah, well. We are all too quick to forget the good days that we just want to dwell in sorrow, including myself. But in reality, we need those baggage if we want to go far, they are like life lesson teachers thrusting to us that life isn’t a bed of roses. So let’s decide which would be tucked far away in the boot of our hearts and those we would carry along because all that baggage is meant to make us stronger. See my post on the 27th of October.
Have a nice time. My fingers hurt from typing. 😦 But then, Smile through the pain. 🙂
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