I was visiting my friend Melanie and her fiancé Paul from Edinburgh last September. The couple lived in one of those typical English townhouses from the last century where everything crunches. The kind of houses where the smell of cooked food spreads throughout the house and sticks to furniture, clothes and just everything.
The kind of houses that consist of many small narrow dark rooms with small windows in their ragged wooden frames…I’ve often wondered, if they don’t have a modern ventilation system, why do they hang their clothes in the hallway, at the end of which was the doorless narrow kitchen where there was always cooking done. One should also consider that the windows almost always remain closed because of the Scottish cold. No wonder Mel always smells like Cullen Skink.
When I wanted to go to the toilet, I had to climb a staircase, the toilet was in a kind of mezzanine. The stairs themselves looked very dangerous, consisted of several small landings, as if the construction of the stairs was interrupted several times and resumed after a time and the result was a complicated uncomfortable structure, which was baptized as the “way to the toilet”. The old wood crunched loudly under the feet and the equipped handrails over the railings felt shaky and unsafe. Simply a nightmare.
Mel (and Paul) had a whole range of plans for the future: a wedding with over 150 guests, a honeymoon in Mauritius, at least 2 children, new cars, a white (big) villa in the suburbs and all the snobbish little things that belong to a life….
“They and their little world”, I thought to myself and immediately after that I thought that they probably thought something similar about me: “Poor lonely girl …”
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The fact is that each of us is stuck in our little world but want to overlook it. Everyone wants to see his own far ahead of others. In reality, however, we are all stuck in our little worlds. We all also know the only thing that can expand our worlds. In particular, the new generation of human beings have succeeded relatively too early to this realization. Please click here and watch the video: Steffi Graf’s answer covers the whole topic of this article, at least in a materialistic sense.
By Niki Nazmi