I am a girl. I am from a small town. But I am not a small town girl. Now, there's nothing wrong with being a small towngirl, but personally, I have a big city heart. I live for the adventure and excitement of big places, especially ones I've just discovered. I live for giant malls, busy streets, and people everywhere. I love the idea of going places and rarely seeing people you know.

I think it's amazing how some people are totally content with staying in a small town, maybe even the same town that they grew up in. That's wonderful, and I am very jealous of those people. Because what I strive for, is so much more complicated. Being from a town that almost no one has heard of (other than those who live there) is ideal for some people. My dream happens to lie somewhere else. Of course, there are some perks of small towns: you can see the stars, which I am a fan of; star-gazing is one of my favorite hobbies; you never have to worry about being alone, because you can usually find someone you know, or at least a friend of a friend. In a small town, you know every road to get home, and chances are your neighbors are a good distance away from you, but still not too far to walk to on warm summer nights. In a small town, you have wide open spaces and empty fields, great for camping in or just hanging out with friends for a night you'll remember for a while.

All of that sounds like an absolute dream to some but not me. I might enjoy a few aspects of a small town, but it's still not my dream. My dream is to live somewhere crowded, somewhere that's always alive. Somewhere new and exciting, maybe even somewhere on a coast. Somewhere where I can have an apartment that overlooks the city lights, and somewhere I can hear the traffic until the wee hours of the night. I want somewhere I can walk from my job to a small café to do my homework or just wind down before going home to my boyfriend and our pets, curling up in bed and discussing the events of our day; I'll tell him about the crazy woman I saw in the grocery store, and he'll tell me about how his boss made him go to three different coffee shops to find the exact thing he wanted but it wasn't too bad, because they were all within two blocks of each other. I want somewhere I can order take out and actually have it delivered to my home instead of having to drive a mile to just get my food. I dream of having a fire escape I can go out on and look at the lights at night; of having a little place in a big city, where adventure is always around the corner.