Dear Bombay (As I know it),
I love you! I mean how can I not? You are my birthplace, the city that gave us place to live generations ago when my forefathers left my so called homeland in search for other opportunities I presume. You are the city I have grown up in, the only I have known as home. You are like that anchor that I come back to after days and weeks of living in foreign lands. At 28, I can safely say that I have seen my fair share of the world but no city in the world gives me that sense of comfort like you do. That's cause I know you. I know I belong to you. I always have and somewhere always will.
You have your flaws. Sure you do! People have deteriorated you over the years. They dirty your coast, your roads, pollute you and are too corrupt to even try and help you grow. But then every city has their share of flaws don't they? and how can I blame you for something that people have done to you? I still love you.I still argue in your support be it with fellow Indians or foreigners. I particularly hate it when foreigners criticize you. I get very defensive even though they have valid arguments. I guess I'm possessive and would react the same way if anyone spoke about anything I loved as much as I love you.
I also feel that some people get very judgmental and quickly form a negative opinion about you without even really getting to you what you're all about. I wish they gave me a chance to change their opinion.
Anyway leaving the others and coming back to me, you are my city of firsts. My first crush, my first love, my first heartbreak, my first friend, first job, and so many more. I have so many memories attached to you. Playing in the waters of Juhu Beach, riding the horse carriage at Gateway of India, drinking my first beer at Leopold, the first local train ride to Jai Hind College, my first visit to a nightclub (Remember Scottish Arms?), the first time I got ragged in college (had to propose to the South Indian dosa guy in Hindi) amongst others that if I start typing them down will fill countless pages.
I only wish I was able to increase the pace of your development and help reduce corruption to make you into a city you deserve to be. A city that will stand out amongst the rest as one of the best in the world. Although it looks like a distant dream at the moment can't really out rule the possibility can we?
I don't know where life will take me in the future. But be rest assured my heart will always lie in you. You can take a Bombayite out of Bombay but you can never take Bombay out of a Bombayite!
Love always
I love you! I mean how can I not? You are my birthplace, the city that gave us place to live generations ago when my forefathers left my so called homeland in search for other opportunities I presume. You are the city I have grown up in, the only I have known as home. You are like that anchor that I come back to after days and weeks of living in foreign lands. At 28, I can safely say that I have seen my fair share of the world but no city in the world gives me that sense of comfort like you do. That's cause I know you. I know I belong to you. I always have and somewhere always will.
You have your flaws. Sure you do! People have deteriorated you over the years. They dirty your coast, your roads, pollute you and are too corrupt to even try and help you grow. But then every city has their share of flaws don't they? and how can I blame you for something that people have done to you? I still love you.I still argue in your support be it with fellow Indians or foreigners. I particularly hate it when foreigners criticize you. I get very defensive even though they have valid arguments. I guess I'm possessive and would react the same way if anyone spoke about anything I loved as much as I love you.
I also feel that some people get very judgmental and quickly form a negative opinion about you without even really getting to you what you're all about. I wish they gave me a chance to change their opinion.
Anyway leaving the others and coming back to me, you are my city of firsts. My first crush, my first love, my first heartbreak, my first friend, first job, and so many more. I have so many memories attached to you. Playing in the waters of Juhu Beach, riding the horse carriage at Gateway of India, drinking my first beer at Leopold, the first local train ride to Jai Hind College, my first visit to a nightclub (Remember Scottish Arms?), the first time I got ragged in college (had to propose to the South Indian dosa guy in Hindi) amongst others that if I start typing them down will fill countless pages.
I only wish I was able to increase the pace of your development and help reduce corruption to make you into a city you deserve to be. A city that will stand out amongst the rest as one of the best in the world. Although it looks like a distant dream at the moment can't really out rule the possibility can we?
Love always
