It took me about a week to regain my senses!!
The last week which I had, must really be somewhat different I believe which forced me to express about it in writing.
Just for starters, I get irritated very easily and the list of irritants seems endless and even surprises me sometimes. One of the most prominant irritant among them is 'huge crowd'. Let me be honest, I am of the kind who likes to be heard and noticed.
I wasn't sure of that real reason which made me start this post, but even then I started, I started with the belief that I'll surely find the one while drafting. This belief surely was developed from the course on innovation where I was taught to control left and right brain. This time, I decided to let my right brain do the job without allowing the editor (left brain) to play any role.
I am still not sure of the root cause of adrenaline rush which is exciting my right brain but the immediate cause of that seems to me the contrasting lifestyles which I observed last week during my visit to Pune and Mumbai.
JUst for recreation and relaxing I decided to visit Pune and Mumbai last week without a clue of what was about to happen.
Let me just keep the story short now. I must skip the part of Pune as it really was as I expected, where I spent a day at home and a day in nearby hillstations which by virtue of being hillstations were peacefula and not much crowded.
But the very next day as I landed Mumbai which is not more than 150km from Pune, the scene was completely different. I heard a lot about Mumbai but never realised that a city can be so fast and busy hat nobody bothers there what the next person is doing.
I tried hard to find an analogy but failed to compare the human crowd in the city. At the station (Mumbai local) you can't find even an inch of land where there is no one walking. I don't really know how can a city be so busy that for not even a single second people stop moving. It was to my surprise that that city made even me to move, if not faster then not even less than the lightening speed. I really DIDN'T enjoy that much.
I am not sure if I want to write much about it, but I would surely hope for reverse migration from that city. The city really is so crowded and fast that it made me realise that why is it important there to keep small children free. When I saw small kids playing on Marine Drive at around 1am in the morning, I should have felt like that's life, people are free and enjoying. Kids are free and parents are not forcing them to stay at home which used to happen with me during my childhood. I was actually forced to sleep by around 10pm. But here I SHOULD HAVE been jealous of the time those kids were having but I wasn't. To me it felt like, they need it. Yes, the life there is stressed and they need something to relase that stress out. They need it for sure.
That very day, even I was stressed and I am not sure how much was the level of frustration and irritation when I borded local to Santa Cruz. I couldn't actually find words to describe my feelings when I landed safely on Santa Cruz, so I sketched it...
I am not sure where to end the post, but I must stop before I say anything to migrated population and tough life in Mumbai. One thing is for sure, if ever I am forced to settle in Mumbai in future, I will have to have a 1 on 1 discussion with God to grant me enough of strength to sustain I don't know what all but in short Mumbai.
It might be because of some other reasons that I feel I am not ready to settle in Mumbai but one thing is for sure that the city is overcrowded which makes very difficult for better road construction, transport, etc.
People must understand that life is just one and money is not everything. In a city like this, you might be earning but you surely are stressing yourself a lot. Take some time out for yourself. To the government I would say, it is high time to start focussing on a mechanism to help reverse migration or else I am not sure what will happen to the city or to the people livign there.
At last with the hope for better and relaxed life for people in Mumbai....
-Arian
The last week which I had, must really be somewhat different I believe which forced me to express about it in writing.
Just for starters, I get irritated very easily and the list of irritants seems endless and even surprises me sometimes. One of the most prominant irritant among them is 'huge crowd'. Let me be honest, I am of the kind who likes to be heard and noticed.
I wasn't sure of that real reason which made me start this post, but even then I started, I started with the belief that I'll surely find the one while drafting. This belief surely was developed from the course on innovation where I was taught to control left and right brain. This time, I decided to let my right brain do the job without allowing the editor (left brain) to play any role.
I am still not sure of the root cause of adrenaline rush which is exciting my right brain but the immediate cause of that seems to me the contrasting lifestyles which I observed last week during my visit to Pune and Mumbai.
JUst for recreation and relaxing I decided to visit Pune and Mumbai last week without a clue of what was about to happen.
Let me just keep the story short now. I must skip the part of Pune as it really was as I expected, where I spent a day at home and a day in nearby hillstations which by virtue of being hillstations were peacefula and not much crowded.
But the very next day as I landed Mumbai which is not more than 150km from Pune, the scene was completely different. I heard a lot about Mumbai but never realised that a city can be so fast and busy hat nobody bothers there what the next person is doing.
I tried hard to find an analogy but failed to compare the human crowd in the city. At the station (Mumbai local) you can't find even an inch of land where there is no one walking. I don't really know how can a city be so busy that for not even a single second people stop moving. It was to my surprise that that city made even me to move, if not faster then not even less than the lightening speed. I really DIDN'T enjoy that much.
I am not sure if I want to write much about it, but I would surely hope for reverse migration from that city. The city really is so crowded and fast that it made me realise that why is it important there to keep small children free. When I saw small kids playing on Marine Drive at around 1am in the morning, I should have felt like that's life, people are free and enjoying. Kids are free and parents are not forcing them to stay at home which used to happen with me during my childhood. I was actually forced to sleep by around 10pm. But here I SHOULD HAVE been jealous of the time those kids were having but I wasn't. To me it felt like, they need it. Yes, the life there is stressed and they need something to relase that stress out. They need it for sure.That very day, even I was stressed and I am not sure how much was the level of frustration and irritation when I borded local to Santa Cruz. I couldn't actually find words to describe my feelings when I landed safely on Santa Cruz, so I sketched it...
I am not sure where to end the post, but I must stop before I say anything to migrated population and tough life in Mumbai. One thing is for sure, if ever I am forced to settle in Mumbai in future, I will have to have a 1 on 1 discussion with God to grant me enough of strength to sustain I don't know what all but in short Mumbai.
It might be because of some other reasons that I feel I am not ready to settle in Mumbai but one thing is for sure that the city is overcrowded which makes very difficult for better road construction, transport, etc.
People must understand that life is just one and money is not everything. In a city like this, you might be earning but you surely are stressing yourself a lot. Take some time out for yourself. To the government I would say, it is high time to start focussing on a mechanism to help reverse migration or else I am not sure what will happen to the city or to the people livign there.
At last with the hope for better and relaxed life for people in Mumbai....
-Arian
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