Sound Of Voices

 As I stand in the balcony trying to cool off from a "heatwave". I hear voices. The nigerian couple next to me murmur softly while their baby squeals in the background. I can hear a few voices floating in from upstairs. Seems like friends laughing together on a friday night. I see another man sitting in his balcony a few floors below engrossed in the mobile phone, oblivious to the crazy effects of climate change. I look down and see a young man walking purposely towards something, drinking from a can of beer. Wonder what his friday evening plans are. There is a faint sound of ambulance siren in the distance. Just enough to make me thankful that I am not involved in that noise.

Everyone rushes to the countryside as they get older. Spend so much money buying houses to get away from people, the "crowd". I wonder if Il ever become like that. Many many thousand years back, humans moved in packs. Since when did we start to break away.

Today I am happy being alone within the sound of voices.Because I am never really alone even if I stand alone in the balcony surrounded by the sound of voices.