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Location and Life-Story-8


Locations and Life

Amanda said to her friend, “July, you know, when you live in a certain city for a quite long time or you are raised there, you start loving it. You feel that the roads, the buildings, the restaurants, the trees and even the stores of the city are part of your life and you are in love with them. When people ask you where were you raised? You answer- I was raised in Oklahoma City or Tulsa or any other place. While giving name of the city the picture of the city comes in your mind simultaneously. The days you passed in the city start moving around your memory. Human beings are in love also with geography this way.”
Amanda continued, “Not only for a longer period, may you fall in love with a certain location where you lived for a short period as well. If you are going to Houston for a vacation and your plan is to stay there in a motel for few weeks, I am sure that you will prefer that room of the motel in which you already have stayed during your previous visits. Have you ever asked yourself that why you behaved that way? Why you liked that very room every time you go to the motel? The answer is very simple. You are in love with that room or that location. You are emotionally attached with that room representing human nature.”
July was quiet. Getting July quiet Amanda added, “If you go to the college, on your first day in the class room of the college, you may choose certain chair to sit on. When you go to the college next day and enter the same class room, you would choose the same chair on which you sat yesterday. What makes you to do so, July?”
July replied her friend’s question, “Human beings have sentiments, emotions, and feelings. That is why they behave differently than rest of other animals. When a person migrates from one city to another, he or she not only brings his or her body to the new city but also the times which he or she has passed in the city.”
July kept silent for a while. She pretended a question came up on her mind unknowingly. July said, “Hey, why are you thinking that way today. Your statements are making me think that you are a great philosopher. Have you started philosophy class?”
Changing the whole context, Amanda answered, “Robert, my husband, is coming to see me today. There was a small misunderstanding, made by a situation, between us. Now, that misunderstanding is gone. We are going to live together after living separately for five years.”
Amanda continued, “We have been married for seven years. After two years of our marriage we started living separately but in that, a five- year time period we couldn’t forget each other.”
After listening to Amanda’s statement July seemed that she had some questions to ask but July didn’t ask any question to Amanda though.

Bishwa R Adhikari

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