What would you take on your very last journey?
Hardly would one reflect on such an idea as, indeed, it may sound embarrassing, yet exactly this question was to preoccupy me when I turned up in one of the exhibition centres in Moscow many years back.
Having no intention of figuring out the ultimate purpose of my existence, I just wanted to take my mind off current pursuits. Instead, deep contemplations on eternal issues and touching revelations given by numerous participants of a psychological experiment were awaiting me.
I remember a spacious hall, sun rays breaking through huge windows and suitcases packed with different things. Those were the things which the participants would take on their final journeys. Each suitcase was accompanied by a letter providing thorough explanations for one's choices.
I dived into the labyrinths of the participants' life stories, their thoughts, emotions, tears and jokes, regrets and joys, the accounts of their failures and triumphs, losses and moments of happiness, fulfilled and forgotten dreams. The people were absent physically, but I could hear their voices and feel the aspirations and constraints of their inner worlds. Their personal truths were intertwining with the truths of the universe.
The awakening sound of silent discourse about life and death.
In the face of the final journey there is nothing but absolute equality and submissive acceptance of the notion that this journey is inevitable.
Such one-in-a-lifetime experiences bring about profound changes of fundamental values determining the course of your life. They foster new concepts you can draw on when you suddenly go astray. Years pass by, but the inspiration still lives on and helps work the way to the unknown destination.
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