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December 18th, 2003 | The lowdown by Wensi C�mara

Taking a Long Trip.

When you travel, you have the sensation that time stands still; you lose not only the notion of time and space, but sometimes you can even lose your identity. If the flight is long enough, and if it takes you from one continent to another, the hours you spend inside the plane transform you into a being without past or future. You feel like a transient passenger and this is one of the ways to feel complete freedom.

Like many people, perhaps I dream of long trips because I unconsciously desire that sensation of freedom that involves us throughout the flight. I flew from America to Europe, from Los Angeles to Madrid. It was a long journey in which I had the opportunity to lose myself in that state of semi-consciousness, which fills the parenthesis between your most recent memories and the life that awaits you.

Life should be like a long, long trip, where briefly, you are able to experience absolute freedom.

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