Baggage Claim Poem by Colette Dright

Baggage claim -
What are you bringing or have brought into your relationship? Are you bringing checked bags or carry ons? Did you bring extra suitcases, or are you just bringing a personal item?

Let's talk about it.
When a relationship ends, everyone tends to bring something from their previous relationship and 90 percent of the time they are not bringing nothing positive. They are definitely packing and bringing the negativity. Negativity that includes hurt, lies, betrayal, abuse, lack of trust, rejection, insecurities, fear, doubt, worry, and more.
Every time when you leave a relationship, you make sure you take all your "stuff" with you. Your stuff meaning, all the baggage you have endured, along with all the baggage you brought into the relationship.

But why? Tell me WHY? Why is it so important that we make sure to claim our baggage and bring it with us. The question is, do we really need to bring it? Do we really need to be reminded, reminded of the pain, hurt, lies and betrayal?

When traveling or catching a flight, we are usually bringing one or more of these 3 items, a luggage, a carry on, and or a personal item. And often we bring more than enough, so much so that we need a suitcase that we have to check in at baggage claim. Then at the end of our flight, we go down to baggage claim to retrieve our baggage.

Funny how in relationships, we do the same thing. Only thing is that this type of baggage is different from our clothes, shoes and makeup that we pack when flying.
Here, like I said, we gather our bags, carry ons and even our personal items that includes hurt, rejection, negativity, insecurities, and lies and bring them right along with us into our next relationship. So for instance, if you have been in 3 relationships, then you've got 3 times of baggage that you are bringing into your 4th relationship.

But how about you start fresh by moving on with just you?
Which means, don't bring NO baggage with you into your next - next job, next relationship, next marriage, next home, next friendship, next city, next lifetime. Because truth be told, if you don't pack no baggage, or bring No baggage, then you won't have to go to baggage claim to claim NO baggage… Just saying.