blending in

[indigominor]

I think that I have finally become a part of the city. When I walk down the street I don't so much notice the rickshaw driver man sleeping on the pavement, or the beggar children asking for money, or the street dogs lying on the curb, or the smell of urine or feces seeping out of a back alley, or the men staring as I walk by. I just walk with my eyes either on the ground to make sure I don't trip on any broken pavement or straight ahead. All of these things are just part of my day...I guess its not that I don't notice them anymore...they just don't affect me in the way that they used to. I don't feel as observant as I used to be. I keep a regular journal that I write in daily and my entries are a lot different than they were when I arrived here. At first I just would list all of these new things that I saw, smelled, tasted, touched and heard but now it's just to document what I did in a day and my reaction to that.
I sort of like that I finally feel settled...but again I don't want to take anything here for granted.