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Summer came fast skipping spring this year in Baghdad. It’s breaking a record and becoming the hottest city in World with temperatures at 120 degrees. Crickets are appearing everywhere at night running away from the heat also. It makes the combination of ubiquitous dust, heat, and crickets feels disgusting. You just want to run away from Baghdad.
I experience the same feeling every time before I leave Baghdad on holiday. The anticipation of travel is amplified by my current quality of life. I live a restricted lifestyle in the middle of Baghdad surrounded by T-walls. The points of my routine work-workout-eat-sleep reflect the same pattern. My answer to the “How is your day?” question has been reduced to it’s simplest form – a copy and paste of yesterday.
That makes me fall prey to beautiful Google images of Santorini. Their power seduces me, removing any sense of rational intelligence. I am left with no choice. Suddenly, I am planning a ruinously expensive trip.
Finally, I took a step toward my sense of freedom by buying an airline ticket – an act that will set in motion the long journey home. The ticket is a key to unlock the chains of routine hanging around my neck.
The anticipation of travel makes me happy. I like the period between buying a ticket and flying. Something good is out there, and I have a sense of moving toward that horizon rather than departing from it.
For me, it is the arrival to the beginning of the holiday that signals the countdown back to the default of life.
In travel, I feel the sense of existence.
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Ninos Youkhana 
Running away from Baghdad !
This reminds of a futuristic movie 🎥 back in 1981 (Escape From New York) with Kurt Russell that came out in summer of that year that I went to see on opening weekend,so-forth Escape from Baghdad , because you don’t even know who your enemies are ? That includes politicians, next door neighbors, national police, even close relatives etc. Oh yes 😊 just so I don’t forget the little critters/insects etc. that ‘re aggressively attacking & flying directly into us , this is what I call kamikazes, so yes do Escape From Baghdad…hahahahahah stay safe & enjoy your expensive vacation 🚢 you’ll be okay 👌
I feel the same before traveling. I hope you would never miss such a chances or feelings. Good luck.
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