abirdinthecity

a lot of ppl have asked me why abirdinthecity for my blog title. let me just tell you my story. on my trip to shanghai, i usually saw sparrows in flocks, but one day, i saw this sparrow alone jumping about and i thought it kind of reflected how humans behaved as well. then back in singapore on my way to school one day, i saw a bird jumping in the fields alone again. so i thought the city makes us lonely people. sort of. not literally. but urbanisation has kind of segregated humanity from mother earth in its primitive form. whatever you can interpret that as, but i just feel that human kind has at some point detached themselves from nature with all this development and big cities. so in a way, we are really all lonely people. at heart and at soul maybe. i dunno, but many feel empty when it comes to the inside and sometimes i wonder if it's not due to the cold walls of solitude that the strangers we meet along the way have set up around themselves. we in some ways live in circles of people, clustered and dependent on each other, but maybe it's reflective that we are lone birds hopping on in the fields as well in life. especially that in the cities. yeah.