I heard you are leaving.
I feel like I'm losing something very precious to my heart.
It is just suffocating.
You were the most intimate connection of mine to that city.
And with your departure, I'm saying my final farewell to that city.
I feel nostalgic,you know.
I remember the way we used to roam around the city from train stations, bus stations to local markets.
That place was simply a city where I was doing my graduation. But you made that city as an emotion.
I remember the street vendor outside my hostel calling me sister and giving me extra Pani puri.
I remember how that uncle always pardoned me whenever I didn't have money for a cup of chai.That was my true happiness.
I miss those days.When I was first entering into that city, my cousin told me - once people live in Mumbai, they cannot love any other place.
I still feel this even after leaving for two years.No other city made me feel like home.
Maybe because I met you there.
Home is where you are.
Do you remember once traffic police caught us for driving on wrong side and we simply asked him the random address and he let us go!!
That city holds so many priceless memorise for me.
I remember watching Rolls Royce parked near me and at the same time a child begging there.
That city always made me witness the wonders of life.
I saw all the riches as well as poverty.Now you are leaving that place too.
I am going to lose my last connection to that place.I can't even say that don't go.
I miss that place.
I wish I could relive that time again of my youth and my love.
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Dictionary-Pani puri:
An Indian street foodChai:
Indian Tea
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