Mumbai……

I love Mumbai….even though I am not born and brought up in this city….I just started working here around 5yrs back….but I feel a part of it always….Mumbai’s population is about 2 crores and it is the biggest city in India and is still growing……what’s unique about this city is that it fulfills everyone’s dreams….I don’t know that if its true but definitely it does have something magical……they say Mumbai ek maya nagari hai…means it’s an imaginary place….
Okay what does Mumbai mean to me…I come from a small city Belgaum and I never really had any great ambitions to fulfill at Mumbai…I just came here because I had many relatives and some special friends and I knew the city since my childhood days and It would be easy to start off here…..and sure it was easy to start off…as soon as I landed within 3 days I got a job…not a dream job but something which I could survive with in this city…you know in Mumbai u can land a job, u can stay with minimum money to spend….but u need to have a place to stay….which is the most important factor….luckily I had got a decent pg…..ofcourse there were a million problems there…but I had something to comeback to at night….
Its been 5 long years since I am living in this city….I know its nothing great to celebrate like Sachin Tendulkar's 20 yrs in Indian cricket but its special to me....I have achieved some things and lost some things…the city has given and taken……today I have my own house, my car and my own family here in this city…so it has given me some things…but also taken away my love, some of my closest friends and some relatives from me…..I still don’t know whether I am happy with what I have or not….but I know that I belong here and nowhere else….
If I look back I have faced many things in this city in such a small span….I do not know what will the future hold…like I was there when the city faced its worst rains…that is on 26/7/2005….then the Mumbai terror attacks….26/11/2008….these were some really deadly incidents that happened….Mumbai is a city which is very unpredictable and on the other hand it is full of life….its a city which never sleeps and but ofcourse it can ruin others sleeping…..I just hope that my future life in this city goes well and I achieve something which I am still waiting for……