'Mumbai is the city of dreams!', I'd also heard that the city never sleeps. However, there have always been frequent ranting from fellow Delhites who've had their share of Mumbai experiences that how the city almost charges an arm-and-a-leg for real estate spaces, the local train mayhem, rain-havoc that gets repeated every year in July and the absence of four seasons like in Delhi! Being a Delhi girl, all my life, I took this criticism more seriously than the romanticism associated with the Mumbai! Delhi had to be better!
And then one day...after 32 years of being born, travelling over a dozen countries, I landed here! I was on a 2-day long work trip, with a squeezed plan, topped with incessant July rains. Being a solo traveller with a packed schedule in a city on high-alert for rains, there was little I could see. But I was intent on taking back some flavour of the city with me. Thus, I went to Marine Drive and it was completely mesmerizing! I instantly felt a pang of jealousy hit me, somewhere deep in my stomach, when I saw the beautiful necklace lights around the Arabian Sea in the backdrop of the famous Mumbai skyline! 'Mumbai was way more beautiful than Delhi could ever get - they have the sea', was my first thought!! My city could never match the youthfulness, greenery, romanticism, and the landscapes that the Arabian Sea offered to Mumbai! The feeling of awe turned into jealousy turned into admiration soon enough! I found myself liking the city, breaking the initial perception that I carried all my life!
They rightly say, travel changes you by letting you discover what you truly love and by making you realise that life is lived fully once perceptions end!
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