So where am I? What's up?

Me, I'm in Toronto. Well Mississauga wishing to be in the big city. It's not really all that big city any more. I remember being younger referring to Toronto simply as downtown. After going to school, working and almost living here for how many years (7 years if I'm counting right) it seems to have lots the iconic name. It still possesses a unique feeling to that of the suburbs but a different one than before. Perhaps it has something to do with downtown being represented by much more than Queen Street West. We can all confess to being fixated on the shops of Queen and Kensington Market in our youth years as where you wanted to be when you went into the city. Beaches? What's that? 

Anyhow, since maturing a little bit I've been able to see a wide spread in the city and still find thing I get to places and have no clue where I am. It's kinda nice. Then again it's not too hard for me to not know where I am. Just ask anyone that knows me or has has the opportunity to sit shotgun in Pud the TDI. I think now in recent months, weeks and days Toronto is moreso a representation of other things and that is where and why I have a certain fondness for it. It represents freedom of sorts, transition for the next step of my life and opportunity. The city or cities in general have much more life at night than your suburbs that you go home to at night. How many people go home on a weeknight to the suburbs then go out for drinks or dinner or do anything remotely active or exciting? Save that hour commute and enjoy some of the night in the distillery or bloor west and get into all the stuff the city has to offer. If you have work to get done, go to a lovely coffee shop (not talking Starbucks here) and get a coffee any way you want it and focus on your task at hand. Your head will thank you for the atmosphere and surroundings of other people who want to do things not just in their professional careers, that's just silly, but helping out in initiatives, ngo's etc. City life seems more conducive to it all.

So where am I now? I'm in Toronto, at work, then I'm off to Ottawa to return back to the burbs on Sunday. Soon, I will find myself in a city. Which one will it be? Will it be yours?