Mumbai - the city of life

When it comes to choosing a city as your favourite, it has to be the one you live in. Not because you live in it but for everything that it gave you, the moments of joy, liveliness and the air that you breathe. Something about Mumbai always fascinates me, it surprises you with its hustle while you are here and it makes you feel nostalgic while you are out. It owns you and you own it, everyone belongs to it just as it belongs to everyone.

These three things make Mumbai the best city there is:

Drive

It is often famed for what it has for everyone who comes here. The city of dreams they call it. A city doesn’t gets raved this much just for the opportunities it gives or the livelihood it provides. The city has the energy to give wings to your dreams, to let you fly, to make you believe in yourself and the vibe that it has to let you be who you want to be. Mumbai drives you to be better at everything you do. The glimpse of any cross section of the city fills you with hope in some way or the other.

Design

Everything that feels good is designed to feel so. When it comes to the city as a whole, Mumbai is beautifully designed along its breadth. The city just feels nice to be in. You can go wherever and feel as comfortable as your home in Mumbai. Be it the beautiful queen’s necklace or the elegant sea link, everything just seems gorgeous. There are parts of the city not much developed to please our eyes but it feels good that we embrace every part of the city and want to see it become as good as the best places in our city.

Connect

You can be complete strangers and yet connect with them the first time you look into each other’s eyes, this is the level of connection that people in Mumbai share. People will win your hearts over by gestures that you wouldn’t have expected of them, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know each other by name but everyone is willing to help everyone else. A city is made of its people and when its people are so cordial to be with, you connect with its people as much as you connect with the city itself.

Of course there are things we aren’t proud of as Mumbaikars, but nothing in this world is flawless and like we are with our loved ones, we are biased towards the good things leaving all the negativities aside. It is not perfect, but we love it the way it is and always shall do so. And like you pray and wish for something you love, you always hope it gets better and never disappoint its people over something it can’t do for them.

This post is the result of a great initiative by Tata Motors for #madeofgreat, who believe only those can achieve great things in life who are made of great and not everyone but a few in a millions are made of great, just like the cars they build.