Reprise

 I recently read a short called 'Rainy Day' (see below), that said much about emotional baggage an letting them go for someone else to find or give it away to someone. 

I saw this greatly as the words of an observer with only a handbag or clutch of 'baggage' in other words an observer. 

Observing is good however writing about things you have not experienced gives a bad taste in mouth. Selena Gomez when her album 'A Year Without Rain' was asked and slightly criticised for writing a fluffy pop album and asked why there was no hard hitting songs that struck a chord with people, why so light? She responded " I don't like to sing about things I haven't yet experienced." I respect this greatly about her, that she is not afraid to say that she has not experienced something therefore can not speak on it.

The Rainy Day short upset me because it made things seem so easy and carefree, as if emotional baggage can be dropped off at an airport and said goodbye to. Emotional baggage isnt really baggage, it's scars and character blocks. It builds the personality of a person, gives them scars of life that show yes, I have been through a lot: it has made me who I am today. Giving this away is like trying to give away the knowledge gained through them.

I don't believe you should harbour things a d hoard them but you need those things in life, put them in an attic storage, a basement. Do not just give them away like they are worthless, I don't believe you can simply transfer parts of you to others. 

People are not that simple, the events that happen to us in the past brings to 易 (Yi). The Chinese word meaning change that [is said to have]derives from ancient word for lizard or chameleon. A chameleon is known for being able to change its colour and a lizard which can drop its tail and grow a new one. Change occurs with the commencement of loss and new things gained.

 Leaving one thing behind and not taking anything with you does not help you it is like running away and not acknowledging the mistakes made as well as the hardships gone through. Any person with baggage should know it is not something that is easy to think of lightly. I am mostly writing this to point out an observation of something that needs to be experienced before spoken of.