Finding yourself in a new city. It was always a dream, to live somewhere far from the drama and tragedies of your home town, to start afresh, and to become independent. The first few days are a blast; you visit the place, fall in love with it (maybe), get excited for all the things it could bring to you and more. The new room looks full of possibilities and you try to make it the way you always wanted to, add pictures, keepsakes, and pieces of your heart gathered throughout the years. As you walk the streets you’ve never walked before, you marvel at the thought that no one here knows you, no one knows of the embarrassing things you’ve done, no one cares about the dresses you wear, no one cares of the food you eat. But the novelty of it wears off soon enough. You realize that you truly don’t know anyone in this new place, and no one truly cares. Apart from the few hours spent with your colleagues, you keep to yourself, silent, alone with your thoughts. The room looks empty no matter how much you try to decorate it, the walls seem to be mocking your loneliness, and the windows a steady reminder of how this place is anything but yours. The streets look desolate, every pair of eyes seem to be staring at you, every strange face mocking you, every person judging you. You want to go back to the place you used to know like the back of your hand, where you knew every other person on the street, where every trip to the shop took 15 minutes instead of 5 because you’d stop to talk every minute, where everyone gave you a friendly smile at all times, where your best mates were only a stone’s throw away, where you’d crave for a moment alone in your ever crowded room, where loneliness was a concept far far away. But think for a moment; Wasn’t that place too once a stranger, weren’t those faces too once unknown to you, didn’t those smiles too once seemed to mock you, didn’t those hands too once knocked every door but yours? Give it time, give your new home a chance, open your doors once again, and surely your hearth will fill with warmth and your walls with chatter once again. #newcity #strangerthings #microtale #jabberedthoughts #jibberjabbar #randomthoughtsbyaj https://www.instagram.com/p/CUC7Y9Qs8Qo/?utm_medium=tumblr