On asking what is that defines the city for him that make him feel homely and not just a place on the map, he says, “I started to wonder what is it about the city that I miss? The pubs, the parties? Maybe not so much. I never partied as a child. But it was the little things.”
It’s not monuments or landmarks that imprint a mark on our soul forever; it’s the people, the tiny gestures, the smiles on the road, on the buses that builds the very essence that is associated with a place. With time, like feathery tufts of a dandelion it may blow away with slightest wind, but has stronger roots that re-grow from any part left in the ground.
(Source: Arjun Kamath)