We come one...

Recently I started discovering Sofia...
Maybe because it is spring, and everything is re-born...I hated the winter...And in the summer I was too obsessed to think about my challenges in AIESEC and my so called "love"...
Indeed I am starting to get more and more sceptical about love...But this should be a separate post.
I am starting to "feel" Sofia, to really love it, no matter the ugly buildings, never-smiling people and dirty streets...It is ALIVE, the city has its rythm, its face, its smells and sounds, its typical characters, its landmarks.
It is almost losing its breath with the traffic-jams...hectic...nervous...and only a few meters away...some small and not very clean park...children playing in the sand...people lining up to get into the church (it is Holy Friday today), gipsy women selling flowers they have plucked from someone's garden...
It is not "european" ...It is so much Balkan and so much typical for Sofia.
I found out how exciting it is to find out every day a new place, a new face...just like getting to know a friend...The city has its good and its bad days and moods...
And as time passes I start tuning in the city's frequency...I guess this is adaptability. And also...it changes your perception somehow, as it becomes a part of your memories.
It will not be the same again.
I am afraid Sofia will loose its charm. They are building like crazy. Cars are eating every single cantimeter of the city. Less flowers, more garbage. Less smiles, more elbow-pushing.
Hope the government will wake up and do something...And we should sustain it.
Which, having in mind the Bulgarian lack of ownership to public property, will be a hard task...
Good luck in changing the mindset of your citizens Sofia:)