Big City Nights

Coming from a small town makes you vulnerable to a lot of experiences that chisel out a personality that will stay. I believe it happens with a lot of people who are strangers to the ways of the big cities. In the last 5 years or so, so much has happened that sometimes i look back and think that some of those things were completely unnecessary. But then i realize that it is the custom of a big, bad city to give you a sock in the face an a huge kick in the arse to make you realise that you are just another maggot in the trash.

It is a revelation if you consider it to be something like a lesson of life. It's one of those things that are best learned in practicality. Come to think of it, it's actually a series of events that are weird to the extent of being astonishingly daft. Pretty hard on the softer variety of people though. Life in the big city will make you an animal. A beast that is ready to pick a fight at the drop of a hat, indulge like a glutton, lust like a nymphomaniac, gobble down its kin and eventually politicise everything to make it look legitimate.

The monstrosity does not confine itself to a bunch of people or event to scores or hundreds. The numbers are huge. When everyone is in a race to win, backstabbing becomes a holy practice. What people don't understand is that if everyone is going to win, there would be no one left to loose. And you can only win if someone looses, right? Which is why i still fail to understand how people keep relationships going when they base it on jealousy, materialism, hypocrisy, selfishness, false pride, broken promises, lies, bigotry, treachery and hate. A truly honest person simply does not have the right to live . People say that the culture of the place is the cause for this stigma. I say, that no culture reduces people to a means to an end. If it does, it's not a culture....it's more like vandalism of values and identity.

The fault lies in the abundant prevalence of ignorance to improve as human beings all around and the rigid mentalities that comes through ultra high self-esteem. I strongly believe that this, apparently, is caused by uncharted wealth and resulting malfunction of grey cells. People who get it easily and quickly are the ones prone to become jerks quicker. The perception of being God's gift to mankind is actually seen in practice.

There is a saying that the topography and weather of a place is a direct reflection of how the people living there would be. Going by that, Delhi, for me, is a place full of dry, hot headed, money minded upstarts, moving around in expensive cars with black windows, ignorant towards the rest of the world. Sooner or later, they will end up as miserable wrecks and go down in the books as someone insignificant and certainly forgettable, just like they had always been.