Fat Kid Spiderman + Traveling

A fat kid in a spiderman shirt

I don’t know why that, of all things from flying to and from San Francisco this week, that is what sticks in my mind. This illusion of the hero, the contrast between the acrobatics of spiderman and the weight of this kid. How we attach ourselves to stories that are so outside ourselves to live through the reality of today. The sense of escapism inside an airport, a place with the main function of leaving, sending you off.

Words of the act of departing are pretty interesting. So much connotation is put into a single word. They tell a whole story of everything before and everything to come after.