LOST IN GLASGOW
Now a days we people are all gaga about how the world has shrunk.. we say the world is a small place, that distances don't matter any more....but tell me guys does it really don't matter ???? i for one beg to differ a bit i believe its not the distances that keeps the world separate but the differences......We Indians still believe that going abroad is a qualification in itself ..i know many of u would be thinkin what! no that's not it,,,,It is no big deal .and i agree, recently i moved to U.K and till the very last moment it was like normal for me although it was my first time traveling outside India...the moment my flight landed in London a crazy weirdness started to kick in ..no more the idea that the world is a small place seemed all that appealing to me ....it was fear and excitement mixed together in a potent combination which gave me a altogether different high i was high on life it seems.......the fear of being in an unknown place and the excitement for the same is strange in itself...i was lookin around just for that small glimpse of the familiarity that i might have experienced back at home ....but i tell u there was none......lol.......but like everything in life it gradually seeps in .........anyways i cleared the customs and got on my flight to Glasgow....and i was all excited to see this new place that was gonna be my home for the next whole year.....let me tell u one thing that was clear to me the moment i set foot in Glasgow, it is a beautiful place to be in if u can adjust to the ever changing weather here.....it might be a sunny day the very next moment it will start raining...u will fall in love with the place immediately .one of the reasons being, it is so differently similar and i mean it ..It has all the looks and flavors of a western country and yet it is so desi at heart......it is as same as it is different from India ....the city wants to party all the time....the people around are friendly and will help u out with everything they can.......
I stayed for sometime in a dorm called blue sky hostel .a fuckin awesome place i tell u not because they provide u with world class amenities or something but the warm welcome and the chance to mix with people from all over the world was a pleasure......people around u as scared as u r was in a sadistic way reassuring that u are not the only one alone lost in a foreign city.
The police here is fast those who don't know i am saying this from personal experience.....unlike back in India police will be knocking at your doors the moment somebody calls them even if it is nothing.........the very first day i landed i had the misfortune or the fortune i really don't know what it was still i got to meet the cops here( "they were huge" )..i was taking some pictures of a old Victorian style library and somebody was wise enough to call the cops.i was like is it crime to click photographs and they said "its OK mate we are here to inquire only"really dude hnnn..i tell u i was trying to put a damn strong face but i was scared to hell... but these guys turned out to be nice and saw the pics appreciated it and left....thank god for that....this place is bustling with people all the time and all they want to do is party .............its time for me to stop too i think i hear voices down there calling me to come, forget my worries and get lost in the crowd partying................
" We humans are a unique kind of lost, we are lost on everything, we are lost in identity, we are lost in relationships, we are lost on satisfaction, we are lost on differences but also we are lost in the only thing that makes this sanely insane world so lovable, we are lost in happiness on the smallest spec of hope"
WE ARE LOST
