When travelling, it's very important to confirm and re-confirm the existence of all things. It's always very possible that there's just a screaming vacuum where your gate should be.
"We go full gatherer " and "purchasing emotional support deodorant" and "demented postmodern Scrooge" was laugh out loud, while notions of home and not-home, and the weird non-temporal qualities of "travel time" interstitial transitory moments and how they are in movement and yet not were on point (hahah) and moving. love.
Fun read. I can see you staring at those travel-sized items in your hand and contemplate how silly and, somehow, overwhelmingly important these "travel" items are as you plan to embark on your journey.
My personal favourite is how I need positive reinforcement and emotional support from my partner when I ask her to confirm that "if we forgot something, we can just go buy it, right? It's not like we are going to a 3rd world country" after I've spent the last 3 hours getting everything just right and ultimately removing items that were unnecessary from the go.
It's important that others validate reality. Make sure they also affirm travel times are accurate, places exist, purchasing things is possible, and that this is all very fun.
Feels you like might be a "check the airport gate exists before getting an food or an drink" as well, which, I fully relate to.
When travelling, it's very important to confirm and re-confirm the existence of all things. It's always very possible that there's just a screaming vacuum where your gate should be.
"We go full gatherer " and "purchasing emotional support deodorant" and "demented postmodern Scrooge" was laugh out loud, while notions of home and not-home, and the weird non-temporal qualities of "travel time" interstitial transitory moments and how they are in movement and yet not were on point (hahah) and moving. love.
Fun read. I can see you staring at those travel-sized items in your hand and contemplate how silly and, somehow, overwhelmingly important these "travel" items are as you plan to embark on your journey.
My personal favourite is how I need positive reinforcement and emotional support from my partner when I ask her to confirm that "if we forgot something, we can just go buy it, right? It's not like we are going to a 3rd world country" after I've spent the last 3 hours getting everything just right and ultimately removing items that were unnecessary from the go.
It's important that others validate reality. Make sure they also affirm travel times are accurate, places exist, purchasing things is possible, and that this is all very fun.