I think I have an
addiction, it’s kinda serious one, I’m addicted to airports, if I get in one of
them my hands start shaking and my heart beating as a mad. But I don’t want to
get over my illness.
Airport are special
places to me, I think I might live like Viktor (Tom Hanks) in a terminal, he
took up temporary residence at JFK airport in the movie The Terminal. You must
watch that film, by the way.
Marc Augé, a French
anthropologist, defined places like airports “non places”, referring to places
that don’t hold a specific kind of
cultural connotation. They are located outside the city and the official
culture, but not for that reason they aren’t cultural.
They are full of
culture, I’d better say full of cultures, there’s a world in one place with
thousand stories, thousand faces, thousand reasons to travel. My favorite sport
over there is people watching, I’ve always seen happiness in their faces
because of the upcoming trip or because they are meeting up with their
relatives or friends, maybe after a while. I love fancying about other people’s lives, I’m a quirky girl
I know, but if I find myself in a terminal with people from China, Singapore and Tokyo I can’t
stop my imagination from running wild.
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| From left: Milan airport, Manchester airport and Bangkok airport |
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