"...The other cities will always be there. The bright lights of our imagined better places will always be on. I can build a life anywhere I want, whenever I want. For now, perhaps it is nostalgia, perhaps it is misplaced political optimism, but I choose to build my life in my late twenties, right here where it all began. Even if I can never call my wife my wife, even if I have to adopt my own children before the state will let me call myself her mother, it is the home which was set into motion for me: sixty five years and a bit ago.
Even though people like us live a life on the move, we still need a place to call our own. I choose to walk these streets, to call them by their old names, and to remember the reason I love this home is because I have one foot in this Singapore, and the other in the one that will only get better."
http://popagandhi.com/2014/01/i-follow-cities/
i quite like this piece! including that nolstagic bit about secondary school, which i realize i share with the author (she didn't seem to like it as much tho)
Imagine the clouds dripping.
Dig a hole in your garden to put them in.
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