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I wonder how much a hut on the beach with a toilet and shower will cost? Maybe a hut on a mountain is better? Just to get away from the city. It really does choke you. The city may throb with life, whether day or night yet there is a certain aspect of the urban environment that appears dead. Could it be the lack of trees? The crammped and limited space filled with society's waste and garbage? Or the desperate look in the eyes of some people that can only be seen in the various sprawling metropolis' in the world since the first cities?
Every day people die violent deaths in this city. Everyday more and more people lose hope and everyday more and more people go crazy for numerous reasons citing hunger, poverty and pain as just a few of these. I guess it does goes to show that being so far away from mother nature turns human into animals.
Would it be escapism to leave and is it wrong to want to just up and leave? How many people, if given the chance, would want to leave the cities and live less technological lives in the countryside May it be the sandy beaches, the now partly-tree-covered mountains or the sprawling plains? Would we as city dwellers be able to adapt to a lifestyle without cable television, internet access, reserved seating movie houses, wi-fi hotspots, starbucks and various convenience stores, clubs and bars as we know it and shopping malls?
If we had to, would a life lived under clear skies and sparkling stars be considered an upgrade or a downgrade from what we have so far?
Every day people die violent deaths in this city. Everyday more and more people lose hope and everyday more and more people go crazy for numerous reasons citing hunger, poverty and pain as just a few of these. I guess it does goes to show that being so far away from mother nature turns human into animals.
Would it be escapism to leave and is it wrong to want to just up and leave? How many people, if given the chance, would want to leave the cities and live less technological lives in the countryside May it be the sandy beaches, the now partly-tree-covered mountains or the sprawling plains? Would we as city dwellers be able to adapt to a lifestyle without cable television, internet access, reserved seating movie houses, wi-fi hotspots, starbucks and various convenience stores, clubs and bars as we know it and shopping malls?
If we had to, would a life lived under clear skies and sparkling stars be considered an upgrade or a downgrade from what we have so far?
posted by Bottom Basement at 10:54 AM
1 Comments:
After coming from Pagudpud, this city just became so gloomy. Maybe it's the fact that I was going back to the reality, the life I tried to escape. Maybe it's because of all the manmade complications that hinders us from seeing the simpler things in life: the stars, the sea (well, the Manila Bay really ain't a great sight, is it?), the trees, the people who have gone beyond trying to exist to just trying to survive each other.
It's not wrong to escape. We all need that to maintain our sanity and try to align everything in our lives (our vision, our objectives...yada yada). What's wrong, I'd think, is giving up on the place we are in...considering that we had a hand on whatever it is now. It's the general thinking that we can't do anything to change it that makes it wrong. See, Bugs Bunny was wrong when he said "if you can't beat them, join them.." We keep thinking that way, we're handing our children the same world we're starting to really resent.
Just a piece of my neurotic "gay" mind.
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