I'm hungry for more.

The rain echoes cos my bedroom window is open. I smell burnt and food and gasoline.
The typicall smells of a city like this.
 
Over 6 million people reside here.
Over 6 million people getting up everyday, cooking, eating, driving,
working, having sex,sleeping, begging, starving, happy, sad,
pooping, stealing, going to school, smoking,
getting high, paying bills, taxes, taking out garbage, cheating. 

People talk about how NYC never sleeps. 
Yo this city never sleeps neither and I wish I could explore it all.
All the corners and dirty allies. But nah.
City is too dangerous here and there. And being a female doesn't make it easier. 

But this is where I am from. Where I was born. 
Im the buildning where I grew up my first couple of years.
I'll never know what my life would have been like if I spent my 23 years here. 
Somteimes I think about it. I have no idea what kind of person I would have been.
But I do still feel that I fit in every time I come back. 
The language, the food. The culture to a certain extend. 

Sweden and Europe has tought me a lot about equality and
what good living conditions really means. 
To have hot water, months off from work when you have a baby.
The social security and wellfare system. 
That you can be a singel parent and still make it. 
That marrige maybe isn't that important that some
religions and cultureswant us to belive. 

I'm thankful for my free education, the libraries, the health care system.
How easy it is for us as EU members 
to corss borders and travel. And simply the perks of having an EU passport. 

So far I have been to:

Madrid, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Rome, Venice, Florence,
Dusseldorf, Athens, New York, Orlando, Bogotá, Cartagena, Paris,
Copenhagen, Luxemburg, Longlavile, Bukarest, Rusalka, London, Lisbon
Cajicá, Zipaquira, Leeds, Manchester, Belgium. 


I can't stay in one place for too long. I have and need to travel and belive me I will. 

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