Walking across a crowded market, traveling across city centers, searching for the right shop, buying the right things, meeting the right people, are few things which we cant avoid. It consumes a large amount of energy and puts you in an insane situation as you loose yourself and your sense in just getting these things right. City travelers should be treated like patients of mental disorders. They come back to sanity after an hour of good rest in a peaceful place. The main problem is obviously a matter of space. Crowded physically and mentally, once cannot listen to personal cries and act humanely. It is just not possible to take humanistic decisions and connections in a place which expresses crowd and suffocation. Like a child which cries if it does not get its space, so does a person's behavior largely alters due to context. I know its obvious but how do we take care of oneself in the crowded city?
I was reading an interview column of Antony Giddens a sociologist. He made an interesting remark on two inevitable things of future - Market and state!. He says, both should go hand in hand. A British can think like that in the age of globalization and multiculturalism, as he has fewer people in his country. What about India where there is a problem of "Crowd" and it itself is a a social expression.
People do many interesting things to tackle crowd! to find personal space and balance their energies.
They look out for lonely corners if they are alone
They get involved with a group
They prefer personal transport
They look out for next logical destination
They sleep in public transport
They get a quick grab - A fruit or a juice
They converse over the phone
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