Life In a Metro City

Conversations with my mother invariably end with the questions, "How long will you be in Delhi?" or “When are you planning to return to Assam?”. The worry in her voice makes me feel as if people here are holding me at gunpoint or someone is going to kidnap me. Since I have been away from my family for quite some years, the question comes up regularly from my mother. She feels I am living a very “LONELY” life here and the life in Guwahati is better for me.

Life in Assam and Guwahati cannot be compared at all. While back home, life is very slow and peaceful, here is Delhi there is always a rush to meet one task or other. Life in Delhi is recognized by its skyscrapers, famous tourist spots, monuments, India Gate, means of communication, shopping malls, the dress sense of the people and the various facilities it provides for entertainment and recreation. But life in a Delhi is hectic.

There is hustle- bustle everywhere, right from the early hours of the morning till late into the night. I find myself always on my toes completing one task and moving towards the other. Life here is so busy........ that I barely have time left to think about other things. Well, the pressure is reduced by the comforts and luxuries that can be found only in Delhi. And some lovely friends are there in the company of whom, time passes away like the way ice-cream melts under the sun. To say, I am privileged with technology, modernization, open-thinking, etc that did not exist in my life few years ago. Delhi has given me space and a feeling of freedom that is hard to describe. I got to know myself in a better way.

Delhi has many charms of its own, though there are some drawbacks too. But today, I just want to focus on the good things only. Even I love my hometown a lot, I still prefer to live to live in a city because it offers me the opportunities to fulfill my wishes and make my dreams come true.