Going to a public park becomes a thing that we have been doing weekly since two years ago. To be more details, going to a public park with public transportation.
I might have so many complaints about many things on this city (and the country), not to say the people with power up there. But, these two years, I feel some hope.
I had to take care few things on the banks yesterday and found there is a newly opened small park nearby few banks that I wanted to visit. All these places located nearby a MRT station, all is within walking distance.
So, we left around 7 am and went to the park first. It is not one huge park, but more like a neighborhood playground. It is clean and well-designed (compared to few parks with old rusty playground). The little girl enjoyed playing there and we stayed for around 2,5 hours.
The second nice thing happened during escalator queue on one of the stations. I saw people standing on one side so another one was given to those who wanted to keep walking. This wasn’t a normal view here.
When you go to other places, like mall, people just standing without bothered which side they’re standing. But, watching such view yesterday, in a public place, my heart smiled a lot.
More outdoor parks and proper outdoor area, reliable and comfortable public transportation, and the mindful habit by its people, those are more than enough for me to have a slightest hope that at least, we’re getting better than before. Or maybe because it feels having what I had the time in London as I wrote here.
Not only my hope on this city, but also the hope of settling in this kind of neighborhood becomes louder and higher. Although, financial wise, well, the numbers are truly beyond our means.
But, been experiencing many things beyond what I thought we could do and been given so many things far above my expectations for the past few years, it makes me more certain, nothing is really impossible (of course, with list of ‘ifs’). Dreaming is free, afterall.
Cheers to more and better improvements to the place where we live!
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