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India is such a diverse country. We have people living in
very small villages to metros like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Calcutta. I
have always noticed that the place where a person has been bought up impacts a
lot on his/her personality.
I too have been bought up in a small town of Maharashtra. My
entire schooling and graduation was done in my town only. It was only after I
got a campus placement that I moved to Pune. Pune was my first exposure to a
city life. My stay in Pune for two and half years made a huge impact on me as a
person.
Been bought up in a small town, I have not been exposed to
the realities of life. In small town, one is bought up in a very protective
environment. One is not able to learn to distinguish between wrong and right as
everything seems to be right.
Same thing happened to me. When slowly I started experiencing
the realities, I found myself misfit in those situations. But luckily I got a company
of very good friends. They protected me from those situations and taught me the
lessons of life. My stay in Pune made a huge impact on my personality. I
learned not to trust any person just like that. One should give time to
understand that person and only then decide whether he or she is trust worthy.
Another impact was on my thoughts. Earlier I use to think that all the relationships,
love, sex, dhoka is only part of movies as I have not seen or experienced in
the small town. But when I actually saw these things happening in reality it
completely changed my thought process.
From Pune, I moved to Bangalore. Another new city, new
people and new life. Bangalore stay also impacted my life a lot. Bangalore if
you see, is ultra-modern, more westernized as compared to other cities. Here
people are very open and vocal. No one cares a damm about what others are
thinking about you. So live life the way you want. This attitude made an impact
on me too. Looking at others, I too became vocal about my thoughts. I stopped caring
about what others would think about me if I do a particular action. This impact
could easily be noticed by my friends and they started teasing me that I have
become a Bangalorean.
And then came my next and the current city Mumbai. I moved
here after changing my job and then got settled here after marriage. Mumbai
life is totally different from other cities. The energy and speed of this city
has impacted my way of working also. Here people are always in a hurry as if their
train is missing. Well this energy of the city made an impact on my energies
also. I too started walking in this fast paced life matching every step of the
city.
This was my journey from a small town girl to a proper
Mumbaikar. All the cities where I have been, made lot of impact on me as a
person and helped to grow to what I am today.
