I was sitting on my penthouse level and staring at the surroundings. From the seventeenth floor, there is not much you can't see on a day of bright sunlight. Being the core part of the city, there was not much colors.
Every building seemed like drab and colorless. All of them were shades of white, cream, gray or a pale brown. The occasional steel gray and colorless glass punctuates the scene. Colors have been silenced - perhaps to provide a sense of seriousness or mature outlook to these buildings. The occasional ad sings of Subway or McDonald's breaking silence, is a welcome sight.
The multi-storied parking lots, apartment complex, lush green parks, shopping malls, gas stations, all constitute to this drab but sophisticated cityscape. America is not without bums and beggars and bad roads - obviously, Hollywood wont show you any. Men and material, propelled by money, moving at massive speeds fill the roads and walkways. Formals attires also dull, matching the theme.
Their lives are somehow pretty bright and colorful. Somehow they manange to be colorful on the "inside" !
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