Hug a little longer at the airport. Goodbyes are the moments your brain saves in high definition.

Partings get recorded at a much higher resolution than ordinary time. Years later you will still have the terminal, the smell of it, who was wearing what, while the entire week before has gone blank. Since that footage gets kept either way, those thirty seconds at the gate are worth more than their length suggests. Rushing them is the part people tend to regret.

Next time someone is leaving, or you are, put the phone in your pocket first. Stay half a beat past the point where it starts to feel long. You are not being dramatic, you are choosing what the recording contains.