The secret lives of luggage

Contrary to popular belief, suitcases appear to have their own lives and have some power over their own fates. They lead us to assume that we are in charge of their direction. However, as has been demonstrated several times this summer, bags actually have complete freedom to go around and do whatever they like.

Let’s be honest. We’re sick of staying inside all day. We decided to vacation since the worst of the epidemic is now over, or more because we have accepted the fact that we would always have Covid. Anywhere. The objective is to leave those four walls, which for more than two years served as our workplace, gym, conference space, kindergarten, fast food kitchen, treatment room, and travel agency for the numerous locations we want to visit.

And this is the very time the luggage were hoping to vanish from view. Moreover, they want some fresh air. At the enormous and well-run Frankfurt airport, A lot of luggage is constantly misplaced and it may be considered a cemetery for baggage. They were piled up in their hundreds near to the oval carrousels, where they were hurriedly dumped after being removed from aircraft. They are the luggage that ran away from its owners.

The hailed from every continent. Along the way, something unexpected occurred. Their owners may have missed a connection, the luggage may have advanced or been delayed, or possibly a mistake was made and they were sent to the incorrect location. Whatever transpired, there they were, joyful and uninhibited. Before someone could start inspecting them one by one and mailing them to owners who, in another part of the world, were berating the airline for missing them, and it would take a few days.

Around the world, 1.4 million luggage go missing yearly on average. According to SITA, an expert in air transportation, it amounts to 5% of the 28 million bags that were either delivered late or to the incorrect location. Just a few days ago, Delta sent a jet from London’s Heathrow to Detroit to deliver 1,000 misplaced luggage. Many more were irretrievably gone.

Even if we pay for them, luggage are actually never truly ours. Since we treat them so poorlydragging them over cobblestone alleys, stuffing them until they burst, and tossing them into every corner of the hotel room we shouldn’t be shocked when they attempt to flee as soon as they have the chance. They just wait till we aren’t looking before making their getaway.

They risk everything to experience a fleeting moment of complete independence while alone in an uncharted airport, despite the fact that they are aware that someone is looking for them and that they may eventually be apprehended. They only desire freedom.