There is something captivating about city centres. Sometimes, it is a real job to get there, to spend a day shopping or working. For a person, living and working in the suburbs, spending time in the city itself can be a rare occurrence.
However, it can also be a really inspiring event. It might mean travelling long distances, experiencing crowded streets, finding parking spots where you pay enormous amounts for few hours in rush and urgency.
After that, you just stroll in the shopping centres, sit in the cafés sipping fancy coffee and observing people. It is a different energy, vitalising and draining at the same time. You might find new inspiring art works, a whole wall that you never noticed before, or two painted living sculptures that put on a fanny act.
You find new shops and products that you never saw before and the old familiar shops where you have visited before have filled up with new things that you can find cool and inviting to purchase or just browse. You might find that suddenly all the fancy shops are sporting the 60’s and the 70’s reproductions, including your favourite clothes and accessories stores.
Wow! So, why not be inspired instead of irritated that everything is taking its time, that it is raining a little, that there are such crowds. Let the energy of the city centre lure you. Then, when you are back home in your own familiar environment, you can think about how different people are in their relationship to cities and suburbs, the places we live in and love.
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