Sunday Scriblings #62

#62 - The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse

Okay, okay. How about just: town & country.

Are you a city person or a country person or both or neither? Feelings about town and country?

I believe I would fall in the middle on this one. I have no accent-northern or southern according to people I meet from both places, although I am sure I would sound like an American in other countries with all the slang I use. Maybe a little bit of both, Yet mostly neither. I hate big cities, although I have lived in a suburb of a small city (Winston-Salem, NC) my whole life. If you don't know where that is then think RJ Reynolds Tobacco started here. Then again I have never really been to any farms except on field trips in elementary school, and most of this area is full of commercialism. We have 3 Wal-marts in town, 2 malls (one of which was the biggest on this coast for a while), 2 k-marts, 2 targets, and hundreds of drug stores, grocery stores, and other things with a decent sized down town area. There are lots of mountains and state parks within an hour or less in almost every direction and Greensboro is very close (which is much bigger). I prefer a little bit more quiet than I often get, but I think it's just the apartment and in a week or two when I get moved into my new house all of that will end. I hate traffic yet I also hate slow speed limits. I love cows but would hate it if I had to wait for anything to cross the street because my life is pretty much lived as if I was always in a hurry. I enjoy getting up really early and going to bed early which I believe is more country, and I hate clubs and bars which I think is more city. I could not live without Internet, but we don't have hot-spots for wi-fi everywhere yet. All in all I just like to think of myself as Chris. Not country, not city, just a friendly guy who goes with the flow. If I have someone I love with me nothing else is very important.

I believe many people see country as a farmer with overalls, straw in the mouth, making due with what they have, and bluegrass music. I believe many people see city as wearing suits, having a 9-5 type business job with an apartment, going out to eat, riding in taxi's, and more luxuries in life. I strongly disagree with any generalization, and also with using categories or any other way to form an opinion about a group. That leads to prejudice. I am a blogger, I can safely say that with no reprocussions because anyone can be a blogger. I am just a person who wants to enjoy life as much as possible and stay happy and if that lends itself to one group or the other and someone wants to put me in it, it doesn't bother me.