Up in the air

Walter Kirn created Ryan Bingham of Up in the air and Jason Reitman rendered him perfectly. In one of Ryan's public presentations he says "Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life." Perhaps he never realized the true meaning of that 'till the moment the Captain in the middle of the flight asked him "Where are you from?". With a profoundly sad voice says Ryan "I am from here" which is no where but up in the air.

They say mortgages, car loans, credit card balances etc, they all chain us down and commit us to banks and all sorts of financial institutes but the truth is we can always pay them off and leave or just give up everything, kiss goodbye a good credit and walk away; it won't scar our souls, but we can't just easily walk away from our relationships, even if we do (for no good reason) it'll come back to us and haunt us. Parents, siblings, love partners or friends are those who keep us responsible in the relationships. We are the balloon and they are the ones who hold the thread. We always flow over their heads even if life distracts them from checking on us once in a while, soon they will turn their head and check on the balloon.