NYC n Bombay!

this post is about NYC n Bombay - the 2 cities i love, for v similar reasons..:)

and this post is also posted by me as a comment in response to my cousin's experience and his feelings for NYC. i could relate with it so damn well that i just kept writing, n once i'd posted it, i wanted these thoughts and feelings of mine recorded on my dear blog. so here goes..

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gosh, i read this blog of urs as if it was smthg i had written myself for my time in NYC or Bombay. in a nutshell, Couldn't Agree More!!!

like i felt when i lived in bombay. the day i landed there, i felt i had arrived, was home. the newness was not intimidating but exciting. the independence was exhilarating. i loved every minute of my stay there. and i sort of promised myself that someday i would be back to relive the lovely time i spent there. despite the problems, the issues, the chaos (pardon me!), i still found the place to be almost magical...:)

many people i know visited the place n just couldn't appreciate it. would complain about the dirt, the infrastructure, the pollution, the crowd. they just couldn't see beyond that. i, on the other hand, could see the problems (oh, it was funny how i would cry hoarse about the badly damaged western express highway every single day as i traveled to work!). yet, i loved the spirit, n what it meant!:)

as for nyc, its the only place in the US that i can imagine living in, despite having stayed in several cities in the US for considerable lengths of time. tho i have only visited nyc briefly a couple of times, i 'loved' the place - for its spirit, diversity, energy, n unquestioned acceptance. n tho i haven't 'lived' there, i know it in my blood n veins that if i were to live in nyc for a portion of my life, i would take to it like fish to water. *insha allah*
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