Tale of Two Cities
I am sitting in Coffee Heaven, trying to pass the time between waking up a JessLev's after a night of dancing and meeting a new friend at Jampa for another night of dancing. Again, again, again I think "this is what being an adult is like. Why does it feel so much like being a teenager?"
But I am enjoying everything about life these days, from dancing pineapples to people watching. I was sitting in the square outside for a while before I came in, just enjoying being surrounded by people. I really love the mystery of other people. I feed off of human contact, from smiles to glares to touch. I enjoy being trapped in a crowded tram because I feel like I am communing with my fellow travelers.
I don't get this feeling in Kolin which is why I am content to while away 10 hours by myself in Prague, waiting for the night to start. In Prague, I am happy just to be around people, trying to imagine their stories.
I bought a copy of A Tale of Two Cities today because it was the most interesting of the English language classics for 99 crown (about five bucks). And I just found a quotation that fully describes how I feel about people today:
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature us constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
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