So at the end of the journey, when you finally arrive to home sweet home, what do you do? Unpack and sort out all your luggage or just unwind and leave the unpacking to another day?

Jimmy and I are unpackers. As we divested our engorged bags of dirty laundry, gifts for friends, food and whatnots, I notice how quickly Bangkok seems like a world away. We're home. No more housekeeping and sheets pulled so neat and tight that you can bounce a coin on them. No more gorging on food until I get a headache. No more taxi rides from hell. No more long hours languishing in a cafe, reading a book, with nary a meeting to rush to or project deadlines to meet.

Unpackers. Between the two of us, we put everything away and stored the luggage in less than 20 minutes. There's a pile of laundry that will take 3 loads to clear, but that's for tomorrow's chores.

If only emotional baggage were this easy to unpack.

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