Unaware In The City Better 〈INSTANT〉

The city does not care if you are unaware. It will continue to spin, to build, to break, and to pulse with energy whether you notice it or not.

But you will care. Because one day, you will leave this city—or it will leave you—and you will realize you spent years walking through a wonderland with your eyes closed. unaware in the city

The daily commuter develops a superpower: the ability to see only the path to their destination. Ask someone who has taken the same train for five years what color the station tiles are. Ask them about the small bakery that opened three months ago on their corner. They will have no idea. Their brain has optimized their route to such an extreme that 95% of the sensory input is filtered out as “noise.” They are ghosts in their own neighborhood. The city does not care if you are unaware