Life in Metro

Begin at Walmart, keeping it on the left, go straight until you find a cross-road and then take a right there. Keep going until the dead-end and the road turns towards left, so you too HAVE to. Keep going until you again find the road turning towards left and so on. This way stay driving and you finally find Walmart back on your right hand side. With a small amount of exaggeration, there you made a city tour of Starkville in not more than half-an-hour. That's the city I live in. It is cute as it is small. No worries, no loud honks blasting your ear-drums, no traffic jams, (no public transportation system too, that's a different thing!) no place has an appearance other than green, almost no place other than Mississippi State University. Like I already told you before, silence here is not simply boring but sometimes it is 'heartlessly' killing. Occasionally, you find some twisters and tornadoes and ice storms throwing a gesture on you like "hey dude, what's up!" I felt it is the right place to live in if you have unending intentions of performing research, because performing research involves reading two kinds of books. One, those you have been reading from your sixth grade, and two, those you have never heard of.

If I have to tell you the limits of my city, there is a lake in one corner of the city and Walmart on the other end. I sometimes think, did I actually reach USA or the pilot dropped me somewhere on a land as he was exhausted of flying non-stop for more than 14 hours, like I was. But I still find that the USA (or just Starkville, I am yet to know that.) has not yet developed as much as India is. They don't have any 'Chai-bandis' on the road-sides, forget them during the day, not even in the nights. Remember our country, there were many days when I used to have a very very hot sip of tea at around 3 early in the morning (I don't like many for this reason, please call this time as night, it sounds much more beautiful, isn't it?). Is this the same all over the country? My friends from different states will answer this.

In my view, there is only one huge or rather considerable difference between India and Starkville. There, you are forced to feel the presence of people around you. Here, you have to work really hard to feel the same. Despite all the drawbacks, I like this place, I would have loved it if I were here with "my" people.