Tag: cities

Eyes wide open

Posted on by philipdodson

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We live in a truly amazing world.

We are surrounded by amazing things, structures, wildlife, nature, people, images and so much more.

Even in our urban worlds we are surrounded by so much nature.

Yet on a day to day basis how much of it do we really see?

How often do we ever stop on our daily commute and take a moment to take in the world around us? Do we ever pull our cars over, park and watch the world? Do we ever get off the train and just sit on the station bench and watch?

When was the last time we spent any time looking up at the buildings around us?

When did we just sit in a park and listen to birds singing?

We all miss out on so much that goes on around us, as often we are in a rush somewhere, we are on schedule.

Maybe it is time to occasionally take a pause, appreciate the world that we live in.

Live life with our eyes wide open and remove the blinkers of our daily schedules, even if it is for a moment each day.

We could all be amazed by what we might see.

My 30 day challenges, day 23 – by Philip Dodson

Posted on by philipdodson

Day 23, the challenges are being done almost on auto-pilot now, although starting to do my blog at 10.05pm having been up since 5.45 am is a slight struggle today.

So it’s short and sweet tonight. Today’s picture is taken towards Tower Bridge from London Bridge.

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London is a great city, I have lived and worked in many different countries and spent time in some great cities. But London tops them all for me.

However, what struck me about walking through the City Of London, from the shiny tower that is Heron Tower, all the way over London Bridge to catch a train, is what is going to happen to all these giant corporate ‘shards’ of glass and steel?

The world is changing, we are moving away from the old school large corporations, to the brave new world of small, start-ups, freelancing and self-employment. The never ending increases in the cost of commuting and technology, that means we can now work anywhere, what will happen to our city centres? We’ve seen the death of retail on the high street, we will in my opinion see the decline of large corporations.So may be The Shard or the Walkie-Talkie building, will be the last of the corporate ‘trophies’, built for the ego’s of the old school world.