When you get a chance to return to the city you love and wander around its streets, you learn not to take anything for granted - everything is so illusive: If you close your eyes for just a moment and turn your gaze away from something, the thing is gone and might never be found again. Nothing is permenant, especially when it concerns people.
While you wander around, your thoughts wander to strange and profound places. But, you mustn't waste any time in searching for those once they are gone, you should concentrate on the present. For, once something is gone, it's gone forever.

When I come back to the city I love, I have the feeling everything is as it should be. I wake up in the morning without having any plans and I commence my journey. My legs carry me to streets and allies to which I've never been before. I might find an address inscribed on a building. I would then stop to admire the building's beauty, and then I would go into a book store where I might spend hours and hours without even noticing how time passes by. Later, I would go to an inexpensive restaurant and have my lunch, and then I would continue my journey along the streets of the city I love.
In my mind, I would start composing a poem:
"When you walk around the city
It's just like to know and love a woman
Time and time again you learn
How to love her more and more…"
(How do you end such a poem?)
I would look for creative ways to spend my time; I would take photos of buildings, people and places that I find interesting. And once I would feel weary, I would stop. My thoughts seem to stop as well, and along with those, my wandering around; I perceive my wandering as a mental journey.

Once those moments are gone and one returns to the daily routine, one feels s/he has been to a far away land, to a different dimension if you like, and once it's over, we long to have another chance to go back to this wonderful journey. That's the very same feeling one might get when separated from a beloved person who meant the world to us, and now is gone…..

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