The last weekend I spent in a big city. Some call it The City of Love. For me it is and it will always stay The City of Freedom.
We all know that feeling we get from being at one place. Town, park, country, bar, museum, café…. Sometimes it’s a feeling of comfort, happiness, tranquillity. Sometimes it’s dizziness, akwardness even restlessness. But what makes us feel that way? Is it the city, the people, the spirit or it’s just us?
What really defines whether we’re going to feel too small in a big place, or too big in a small place or the other way arround? and which is better…
In my humble oppinion – the people!
It’s probably strange to feel home, when you’re abroad. It’s even stranger to feel more free and happier when you’re among strangers. When you do not talk but still can understand them. And they can understand you. Like two souls talking without making any sound, just perceiving all. Sounds a bit like a hippie – late–john lennon- good-night-story. But it’s not really like that.
It’s just the freedom that you feel. Something that can hardly be described. In my case it was a simple dance with a girl I don’t know. She just came out of nowhere. Took off her shoes and started dancing – free, happy, gracious. I was just sitting there, enjoying her “performance”, or as I understand it expression of freedom. She wasn’t a professional dancer, but no dance that has been choreographed could be compared to hers. It was natural, flowing, tender, amazing, undescribable, beautiful. Soul dance, the only one that is truly real. Suddenly I felt like dancing. And I did it. I didn’t care about the people arround, cold weather, the fever that I had. I was crazy, but for the first time of my life trully free and happy. We started dancing together. And at that time it was just both of us together tangled in a dance of life and soul. I didn’t know her but I felt just the opposite. We followed each others moves like we were dancing together whole life. And it was memorable. Nothing else existed. Just dance, just feeling, just us…
At that moment I felt small and at the same time big in a city of million people.
I hope that everyone can get that feeling at least once , because this is the moment when a person is really living. It’s not neccessary to be dance, it can be everything else…. but it’s something everyone should experience. It’s life, it’s everything we need to be happy – to be humans.
