This is something I found in my drafts, something I wrote almost an entire year ago. To think how fast time flies.
There is a lot more to city life than what the movies would like you to believe. City life is not only about the unrelenting numbers of new bars and discos in town, it is much more. It is about the stories that get played out within it. Stories that virtually repeat themselves with small changes included. You only have to stick around long enough to observe it happen. I did. A few years back when I was riding a train, heading to my German class, I overheard these two women talking about one of their nephews; how he has been engaged to the girl he had been in a relationship for six years with, and how after things did not work out, he decided to have an arranged marriage at the young age of 26 (which is obviously very young) after one heartbreak. You might think, 'Why is this important?'.
Well, a few months ago someone, a former friend, told me that he and his girlfriend of six years had broken up, and that he planned on having an arranged marriage because he had washed his hands of relationships.
As I said, you just have to stick around long enough.
A city is as good as the people living within its boundaries. It is the citizens that make any city worth living in. You could have the most beautiful city in the world but if its people were drab and uninspiring, would it still be worth living in?
One could say that this post is kind of my way to say that I am going to accept the changes about to barrel into my life. So, here's to all new experiences and new people.
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| Amalfi, Italy, 2017
I am going to be moving soon. I can visualise one of my best friends going, "You are moving..AGAIN?''. Yes, I am. After trying to reacquaint myself with the city life in my two months here in Mumbai, I feel, I am finally starting to see why it is great to live in a city again.
In my time in the quaint little town where the better half of my two years in Austria were spent, I could not imagine losing the serendipity of a little town, but now I do not mind returning to my status of a born and bred city girl.
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Well, a few months ago someone, a former friend, told me that he and his girlfriend of six years had broken up, and that he planned on having an arranged marriage because he had washed his hands of relationships.
As I said, you just have to stick around long enough.
A city is as good as the people living within its boundaries. It is the citizens that make any city worth living in. You could have the most beautiful city in the world but if its people were drab and uninspiring, would it still be worth living in?
One could say that this post is kind of my way to say that I am going to accept the changes about to barrel into my life. So, here's to all new experiences and new people.
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