Metropolis

 You see all this picture? 
How you see it?

In the past, I was proud of the city I'm living in. I am proud of the very fast technology. I am proud of the many amenities in the city. I always dreamed of living in a developed and busy city. I like to do various interesting things that are only available in cities. I am generation Z so my life must be in the city.  Many new buildings coming and more interesting shops to visit.

However, after ten years of exhausting life and work in the city, I feel very tired. Every day we chasing life. we start life with coffee. our food is fast food because I feel that, time is very fast while the works never ends so fast food is the savior of our lives.

However my health begins to decline. I feel tired and stressed easily. I'm burnt out. my brain is messed up. I cry easily. 

I notice the people around me. everyday we chased  the train to our  places. we ate quickly at the restaurant because there were many places to go. We shop every day but there are more and more items we want to buy. we eat dessert every day to feel happy but that happiness is only temporary. we follow the latest fashion, so every day I just want to buy new clothes, while my closet is already full of clothes and things. 

Until I got really sick. i decided to go back home. My home is in countryside. Its not in the big cities. My favourite shops and things are not available at my parents home. But, the food are fresh. The home cooked meals are so warm. It refresh my soul. I love the sound of nature at home because the city is too noisy that I need a white noise to calm me down.

Then, I realize the life that I used to love is the one that make me sick and easily overwhelmed. There always so many things to do and need to have that I feel sucked up by this temporary life. I quit everything and back to basic.

We need life that not taking our soul. We need to be alive with our soul. Don't sell your soul to anything, Its okay to be in comfort zone because sometime when you chasing what everyone is doing, you might losing everything.

So, metropolis or megapolis is not the life we need. What we need is the warm home cooked foods, the sounds of nature, the basic and average life, the happy family and our soul living in our body.