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Left Baggage

Before I left for Kota Kinabalu, I left my huge suitcase at KL airport. My suitcase is really big and I was a bit nervous about travelling with it. 

The day I left KL was the day I left a lot of my friends behind. The previous day I was talking to one of the Fellows of TFM. She told me that once all the 'externals' (a word for foreign staff) leave she would feel helpless and sad. I told her to think of the fact that 78 Fellows and so many staff members will still be around. Whereas I was the only Indian in the organisation and I was returning all alone. I was leaving everyone- staff, fellows, friends. That statement truly hits me now.

I am going to KL tomorrow to collect my luggage and to take a flight. Two of my best friends in the organisation came to send me off that day. They were with me at the luggage drop off. When I go back tomorrow I will feel extremely nostalgic, I know. I will relive some of our last conversations together and some experiences- like the restaurant where we had a meal and made a tear-filled goodbye speech. We will meet again for sure. But it's not the same. It's never the same. 

This place tomorrow will have more than one kind of baggage for me. 


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