Walking In Another Person's Shoes.
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (57233)
May 12, 2022 8:51am CST
I see them, men, women and children leaving their homes - homes they have lived in for the past ten, twenty, thirty years. They are walking into the unknown, anywhere to escape the bombs and mayhem in their country.
Traveling light is a must, so they carry a back pack, a few bags. How do they choose what to take and what to leave?
You are leaving a home you may never see again. In that home you have years of accumulated possessions , memories , mementos, what a difficult task.
I am trying to walk in their shoes - what would l take and what would l leave. What do you think? What would you fit into a couple of bags?
Walking in someone else's shoes means -- trying to imagine how you would feel or act if you were in the same situation as a particular person.
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@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
15 May 22
I cannot begin to fathom what thoughts would run thru someone's mind as they pack to leave for good.
If done in haste I even wonder what their thought process is like, it would probably be more survival then comforts.
Personally if I had to flee quickly, I have our passports and my purse separate but both in a location which would allow me quick access. I would hope to be able to grab my medication bottles, anything else would depend on how long I were going for and to where.
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@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
15 May 22
@Kandae11 Our daughter-in-law's parents, and her and her sister fled occupied Poland with very little. They had to lie and say that they were going to the United States on a vacation, but that was really their first stop on their way here to Canada. It still bothers her mother that all of her momentos are still at her mother's home in Poland. One day she will move back there and have them.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
12 May 22
That would be a tough choice I think pictures and other things of sentimental value that couldn't be replaced. I would also take clothing of course in another bag.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
12 May 22
@Kandae11 Yes, medicine too..I assume they would have food where I was going but I might throw some snacks in there.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
13 May 22
The worst thing we could do, though, would be to try to take too much. I might be more guilty of doing that.
Perhaps my mobile phone, and its charger, might be the first thing that I would take though...we all love our phones...
@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
13 May 22
@Kandae11 That's true. You wouldn't want to leave your passport, or other ID details then either, such as a house title.
@MarieCoyle (59106)
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13 May 22
When I see those families, babies, elderly, trying to walk all those miles....they've lost everything and they are still trying. They don't give up. Their strength is incredible. But the stories of hiding in basements for weeks, no food, nothing...it breaks my heart.
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@Kandae11 (57233)
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13 May 22
I agree. When l am sitting on my veranda, sipping tea and myloting, l pause for a moment to think of those poor people - like you mentioned - hiding in cold, damp basements, fearful, hungry, full of despair and probably ill too. Their lives suddenly disrupted, what an awful situation to be in.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
14 May 22
@Kandae11 We have more than, 60,000 Ukrainians right now here in Switzerland. Our Mayor has put at their disposal an apartment building that was just finished and not yet inhabited. The population offered the furniture, dishes, glasses, towels and so on.
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