Thoughts on Suburbs

I once read a book, I’m not sure what it was called, and in this book the main character is walking down the streets of some suburb or other in the day time. And this character says something like, “during the day, you can feel souls rotting in the suburbs.” I’m not sure exactly what the quote was, or even what the rest of the book was about, but that quote really stuck in my mind.

I think about it a lot, especially when I find myself walking in my suburb in the daytime, which I do almost everyday.

There are a few reasons for this

I am a uni student

I work at night time

I own a dog which is half a kelpie (which half? ha ha ha) and needs to be taken out everyday

So anyway, I walk down the streets and see noone, and when even when I get to the dog park I am normally the only one there. If I do see other people they easily fit the daytime demographic - old people or Mum’s with young kids. I think that it must be pretty soul-rotting to be a Mum-with-young-kids living in the suburbs in the daytime, after all - noone actually LIVES in the suburbs in the daytime. The word that I think of when I walk my dog is lifelessness.

Weekends are a different story