Houston
So there is beauty in Houston after all. Though I had searched eye and low, I was looking in all the wrong places. I had spent a lot of time disliking the geographic location at which I reside, but looking both to the skies and from the skies reveals my error.
You get too close to anything in particular and Houston's flaws are overwhelmingly evident, but taken from a macro perspective, and with a little imagination, the place is pretty spectacular. I do a lot of driving in my line of work, so I see the nicer areas and I see the more ghetto areas. Now ghetto areas are going to be ghetto no matter which town you live in, but there was something silly about the nicer areas that I couldn't quite define until recently. People think that they can buy niceness. The Woodlands. Kingwood. The Heights. Bellaire. So people do two things mainly to feel that they live in a nicer area: they throw a lot of money into creating a habitation with the intent and purpose of making it look like an edifice spent money on, and they do it nearby other people who did the same. This creates mega-communities, or maybe bio-geographic regions of people who want to feel nice. Now, I'm not demonizing these people. It is natural to want niceness, and in Houston that doesn't come from the geography, that's for sure. So how else to get it other than to purchase and create it? But I disagreed with this format of habitational enjoyment.
I can't really find any sort of habitational enjoyment in Houston, unless it potentially came from a family. And this is largely because I don't admire the geography around this area of Texas. This region is humid, muggy, flat, hot, and worst of all, it's very far away from places that are NOT all of these things. So I started looking. I started hoping to find nice things about the area. It's not in the people (though I was lucky enough to find at least one that contradicts that statement). It's not in the buildings. It's not really in anything man-made, UNLESS it's viewed from afar. Houston has a beautiful cityscape. The high-rises and sky-scrapers are appealing, especially if spotted from a distance or from a plane. I always love flying back into Houston. And I also love my morning drive because it takes me over this high feeder-road to the Beltway and you can see all the way 26 miles to downtown from there.
But even more beautiful that things view FROM the sky IS the sky. Goodness, I think it is a mixture of the cloudy weather that is ubiquitous here and the golden hues that the Gulf casts over the clouds. That, and of course the sun! Yes, that is the beauty. You couldn't find quite the same sunrise in the dessert or the mountains, but you constantly find it here!
You get too close to anything in particular and Houston's flaws are overwhelmingly evident, but taken from a macro perspective, and with a little imagination, the place is pretty spectacular. I do a lot of driving in my line of work, so I see the nicer areas and I see the more ghetto areas. Now ghetto areas are going to be ghetto no matter which town you live in, but there was something silly about the nicer areas that I couldn't quite define until recently. People think that they can buy niceness. The Woodlands. Kingwood. The Heights. Bellaire. So people do two things mainly to feel that they live in a nicer area: they throw a lot of money into creating a habitation with the intent and purpose of making it look like an edifice spent money on, and they do it nearby other people who did the same. This creates mega-communities, or maybe bio-geographic regions of people who want to feel nice. Now, I'm not demonizing these people. It is natural to want niceness, and in Houston that doesn't come from the geography, that's for sure. So how else to get it other than to purchase and create it? But I disagreed with this format of habitational enjoyment.
I can't really find any sort of habitational enjoyment in Houston, unless it potentially came from a family. And this is largely because I don't admire the geography around this area of Texas. This region is humid, muggy, flat, hot, and worst of all, it's very far away from places that are NOT all of these things. So I started looking. I started hoping to find nice things about the area. It's not in the people (though I was lucky enough to find at least one that contradicts that statement). It's not in the buildings. It's not really in anything man-made, UNLESS it's viewed from afar. Houston has a beautiful cityscape. The high-rises and sky-scrapers are appealing, especially if spotted from a distance or from a plane. I always love flying back into Houston. And I also love my morning drive because it takes me over this high feeder-road to the Beltway and you can see all the way 26 miles to downtown from there.
But even more beautiful that things view FROM the sky IS the sky. Goodness, I think it is a mixture of the cloudy weather that is ubiquitous here and the golden hues that the Gulf casts over the clouds. That, and of course the sun! Yes, that is the beauty. You couldn't find quite the same sunrise in the dessert or the mountains, but you constantly find it here!