Hello, Dear Hivers
I am back after a few days, a few months if I choose to be precise.
So when you move to a new city, what do you expect from the new city? How good is enough good for you to be comfortable to it?
Maybe you'd ask for having all your favorite things nearest or available to you.
Or some other desires, my brain is unable to think of.
I recently shifted to Mumbai, the financial capital of India as they call it. I had never lived or even been to such a big city before, to be honest. So, its only after first twenty days, I am here with you sharing my journey throughout and about this beautiful city.
I did not have any particular expectation from this city, but I was all ready to roam around the gullies in this city that have a thousand stories to tell.
As I am choosing to tell you that I shifted to Mumbai, I must tell you why. So I am here to get a masters degree in Population Sciences, from International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
I will not go much into talking about the course in this blog, maybe that'd be part of another blog.
Rather, I will point few things with my viewpoint as somebody who has not previously experienced life in a big city.
It's not that to dream big you have to live in a big city.
But what is beautiful is the effort, and the perseverance people make first to be able to live in this expensive city and then have the audacity to dream big. Of course it's not about people with high salary jobs.
Only a strong desire for something, a dream can make people live in a house that has dimension of merely a toilet. And that too is rented for huge amount.
You can hardly take a morning local train, because a huge workforce in Mumbai takes Morning trains to the city, and you can't even have the space to put your feet in the train.
Local Train itself plays an important part of Mumbai City. Cheap and Fastest form of transportation. There are trains every five minutes in all the three lines of local trains- Harbour, Western and Central line. Mumbai is next to Bangalore in traffic if you choose bus.
I have learned from my experience that you put your effort only in something that gives meaningful results to your efforts.
This city has the ability to give meaningful results to the efforts you put in. Just for an example, people specialized in any field choose to go to bigger cities so as to gain optimal results with the same or little more efforts than how much they used to put in before.
I know these things are simple. But, I am writing it out after I have observed it here.
Let me save some philosophy for next part!
Mumbai is also famous for the rain. During June and July, Mumbai experiences heavy rainfall. Whenever you go out, every time you need an umbrella here. Because, no one in this universe knows when its going to rain in Mumbai. Who you poor sir are! You must have seen the crazy rain scenes in Bollywood movies as well if you are into that sort of thing!
They say you can learn from anything. I don't know who they are, but I agree. If you are exposed to circumstances, it's to learn. It's to gather things that you don't have with you.
I love to observe and talk less. Most of the time having no opinion kind of helps me gather opinions filtering which gives me views of people. I try to learn and unlearn things with the help of views of people. Again I'm not saying it's the only way to learn things.
It's also easy to fall sick here. I went to Marine Drive few days ago. Boom! Fever and body pain next day! Bed rested for three days. Then continuing this blog today as I am feeling pretty good now.
How you look at things is partly influenced by where you have grown up or where you are living. When you live in a big city, you come across almost every class of people and different types of works. Then you start looking at the commonness among people. It appears every one in here is working hard to make some money out of this expensive city. That's what binds all of us. All of us are here for a purpose.
These are just simple things I noticed in a big city, You must have different views about different big cities or Mumbai. Let me know everything in the comment box.
Thank you for reading.
Sagar
