Can you leave your baggage behind

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Last weekend I watched the moview UP IN THE SKY,casted by George Clooney,Anna Kendrick. George Clooney is a downsizing expert in a large corporate name Rayan.Ryan's job is to, by simple words, fire people. The anguish,hostility, and despair of his'clients'has left him falsely compassionate,living out of a suitcase and loving every second of it.He has a second job as of giving motivational speeches on relieving one's life of excess physical and emtional baggage, in whose eyes the baggage could be in terms of friends, family, houses,everything in the house. His belief is to live out of that baggage that burdens us, impedes our steps forward,to unpack it!He spends almost a whole year, give or take, up in the sky flying all over the world. I was deeply shocked by his belief and his impsersonal feeling towards his 'baggage'.He could so easily put his family behind that his sisterhood with his sister shrinks to barely nothing left.It's pathetic to me then, also selfish of his way of living.I also believe that occasionally it's the us ourselves who add the weight into our suitcases,slowing our pace to something we really wants to persue,but Rayan made it a 'legend' to push the boundary to that, and that's why he lived out of half of his life not having to carry the burden we normally have.But anyway,the movie in the end had a reverse of Ryan's faith making him realize that we are all doomed to have a baggage that weighs on our shoulders,and more importantly we need that weight to go on with our life.