The View Is Gone
What is different about the place I live in currently (apart from it being a different country and such other minor details) is that I don’t have a view of the distance from any window of the house. For one thing, there is an insect screen that covers all the open windows. This limits visibility to a great extent. And more importantly, all I can see from any window on this level (a floor above ground-level) is the road and the lawn.
I want to have a view of the ocean. I want to feel the sea breeze upon my face.
October 25th, 2007 at 07:11
Now that you mention it, I used to have the same feeling whenever I travelled outside Bombay and felt strange for some reason. Then I realised that in all those places, the buildings were all 3 or 4 storeys high max and I could actually see the sky all around the buildings.Lots and lots of sky, while here I can always walk in the shadows cast by the buildings on both sides of the road and never see the sky unless I look right up. Which means that when you are on the 10th or 15th floor, you can see far into the distance.And even if the sea is not actually visible, you know it is out there near the horizon.
October 25th, 2007 at 09:29
and in most other places, can go to the roof and look at the top of other houses, rather than looking into somebody else’s house!!!