Train ride reflections

After the argument I had with my mother, I took some time to really reflect on everything she had said. As we rode the train from Paris to Lyon I pondered how I could be a better person. Knowing that in a few hours I'd be in a new city where I could start anew made me hopeful. I imagined how much easier it would be to enjoy our vacation as my authentic self rather than being concerned with fitting in. I mentally reinvented myself as we rode along and set an intention to be more confident and true to myself both in our next destination, and in the next phase of my life. When we arrived in Lyon, I felt like a new person.

The feelings that I experienced along my train ride and arrival in Lyon mirror McAllister's belief that “liberation from physical space (or at least from connection to specific physical spaces) also suggests deeper forms of liberation, including giving ourselves to the creative urge to re-form, re-invent, our identities" ( 225). Place can be quite restrictive, so when people become detached they have a window of opportunity to implement important change.

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