CITY LIFE

Life in the city is full of stress. Stress awakens you to the realisation of the hustle and bustle of city life. Thinking about the mere traffic is enough to put your stress nerves on alert mode. The easiness of rural life eludes the city people and brings homesickness to one's mind. Is it in the market place? Mammoths of traders are there at your beck and call sending confusing signals to your brain, you are left with a school of choice to select the merchandise from the team of traders. It is not a familiar place for the first timer but an intriguing and somewhat scary place. Driving in the city is another matter to be discussed on a different day, learning the art of driving in the city cannot just be thrust on you. You have to master the art! You have to be so skilled as to avoid being bashed by an irritable bus driver  and keep to your lane and pretend that you  have been doing this for a while; driving in the city I mean. It is like the survival of the fittest on the express roads, if you are not avoiding being hit by a bus, you are then targeted by a tanker driver.



Life in the city is fun but with a cost. You lose some hours of sleep to have some fun. When some country folks are rising by 6am, you are already on the road by 4am competing with other irrate drivers to get on time for your daily bread. The tall buildings make you stare in awe, the lovely signboards and signages flood the streets and the neon lights blink at every stop yet all is still part of the glitz and glamour of the city that pulls you like a magnet and makes you settle for the busy life in the city. It is not boring at all because there is always something happening somewhere, your eyes are being fed with all sorts of scenes and a plethora of events fill the air. That is why the eyeballs of a city dweller seem more enlarged than that of his country folk because he is always on alert to happenings that flood his daily activities.

By Uduak Otongaran aka Cocosista.