CHANCE COMMENTS: Unpack your oversized baggage now
IT’S unlikely that "the portable equipment of an army" would be your first definition of "baggage", although it is one definition. For most of us baggage means "things that encumber one’s freedom, progress, development, or adaptability; intellectual baggage that keeps one from thinking clearly; neurotic conflicts from struggling with too much emotional baggage", as one online dictionary puts it with depressing accuracy.Baggage is all the emotional crap we carry with us from one relationship to the next and the next and so on, until we either dump the baggage or abandon hope at finding a relationship with someone with compatible baggage. And matching luggage is always to be coveted.The baggage doesn’t have to be romantic, sexual or even mature; it can stem from childhood and end at an interlude at the water cooler last week. Humans just love baggage, without it we’d be no better than bovine, boringly chewing over the events of the past five minutes, which consisted of some grass eati...
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