The Five Places in Life

I am your hometown. Your precious childhood was lived here. My memory stays untainted where ever life takes you further. And that is brushed beautifully alive each time you revisit me.  Roads and path appear shorter than it was then, buildings look small, the simple temple at street corner would have raised by then into a splendid structure. The boy at the little box shop would have grown and his shop is now a big store. You like it here with me to just be and do nothing. You know me by heart.  You don't have to be here to feel me ,to write about me. I am where you are heartiest. 

I am that town which you luckily left. A place that holds some void which you never got to understand. A silence and quietness which you did not deserve. I only made you to quit. To step back. You were too young to realize that it wasn't your fault. I gave you a world that was too narrow to live in. You just existed here and know not that there was other way out. I suffocate you with lacking. I shape you into a perfect misfit. I push you into an uneasy oddness. I set your inner demons to a level of wildness which you fail to master. Years pass slow but u easily get old here. I am where you never belong.

I am your city of study. Every people here are  at their own business, driven with passion, having a purpose. You are not on watch and imagine how much freedom that gives! You develop your own style here and learn to carry yourself well. I am unique and I gift you the same. You learn to make choices here and grow independent. May be you should enter here at right age to love me full.  I give you space. Space for your inner child and older self. I make you lone and that calms you down. Sitting here, you self reflect, you miss people and places and all  that is a beautiful feeling. I am like a beach shore, a stone bench inside a rose garden, a moon lit night on terrace. I am where you transcend.

I am your work place city. You like me for my rawness, for my tough vibe. Having filled with unceasing energy, I mold you for living, for a better life. You cry and get cured here. Every people here are at run and you too learn along. This busyness builds you, keeps you on toes. I surround you with chaos and hold your demons with my reins. You are so much familiar with the transits across me that you can travel eyes closed. People take different lessons from the same lecture I offer.  Some learn and fly away, some step back with all due respect and few get too much clinged with me and hence never leave. I hold a mixed culture and much richer history. I am where you attain glory.

 I am your final place of halt. Having lived a haste life, you sit back and relish here.  You shred all sophistication and set a simple routine here. This getting disturbed by any means, leave you stressed that whole day. It's all small deeds like watering your plants, dusting every rooms, every furniture, arranging shelf, daily market, evening walk, bed time books and Fm radio. You prefer to do things the more time taking way. I make you feel rested. Everything is at a gradual phase but with no complains about it. My this passiveness does not bore you. Time for everything is just enough here, not too less, not more either. You understand me and I respect you for that. I am where you retire.