#especially the english countryside because you don't even hear the call to prayer

[upwardsonwards]

there is something incredibly personal about living in apartment blocks. you learn such personal little details about people's lives without ever exchanging a word with them.

i know the boy in the flat below me plays guitar and sings. i can't remember what he looks like, but he's gotten better over the years. i know that somewhere on this floor, someone's gotten a dog. and in the flat to the right the mother is a teacher. i hear her voice sometimes during a lull in my own lessons. i know that in the flat opposite my bedroom window, one of them likes to have a morning smoke on the balcony.

when i was younger and i went to bed earlier, in the summer i would see people eating supper on their balconies and i could hear snatches of conversation.

it's nice, you know. it makes everything seem more homely.

#ash actually speaks #no seriously the country side sucks it's too quiet #especially the english countryside because you don't even hear the call to prayer