City - A Place of Dreams

A city is not an area lined with cement andenjoys, as a human being conducts and
crossed by cars racing around and buried by theconstructs there everyday as a rational, emotional
thick smoke from the chimneys and also theand intelligent person.
deafening noise of car horns. Nor is it an openThe city is the place to open our eyes each
field in which each and everyone is rushing frommorning to receive the light of day and to absorb
one place to another as if they had no fixedthe air that our bodies are alive with. We have to
destination.face the struggle of every day with renewed
A city is much more than the rush of those whostrength obtained in the folds of memory or in a
are running around, which is much more thanfar corner of the future which has been
concrete, iron and asphalt structures of the citiesprojected in our dreams.
that have grown in a disordered manner, in whichThe city is the place where we were born by
the life of many generations of men and womenGod's will or where we face the intense days of
was spent between the time and anxiety of thedaily living by choice or by force of circumstances.
reduction of spaces.Certainly it is not just a place where we are born
The city is more than one site, a place, a lot ofbut the scenario in which it projects and fulfills the
land and space. The city is people laughing andtask of living and sharing. In a sense a city is one
crying at the pace imposed by the events ofin which at any given time, we are planting our
their time and lifestyle, it is the encounter of thefeet and our eyes are fixed. It is the geographical
innocent smiles of children with a whisper of windarea in which the heart beats and blood flows in
in the treetops whose shadow is projectedyour life permanently.
generously on the sidewalk where friends shareThe city is a platform where people pass through
their conversation or in the park in which thehere and there, a street where walkers move
lovers walk hand in hand and plan a future filleddriven by their commitment, a road crossed by
with love and understanding.bridges of cordiality, a set of neighborhoods that
It is the point of time and space in which thecustoms born, modifying and is shown in a
matching of people's souls takes place and theirperennial process of construction and
desires to build a new and better world and theirachievements.
need to live together with other human beingsA city, in other words, is life. It transmits it to
beside them is of relevance. The city suffers andpeople who are sheltered in its protective shadow.