Letter to a friend (big city vs. small town)

Dear Tom,

I am happy of your safe arrival in this new city, and I would let you know that a small town is not as bad as you are thinking.
Having lived in both, and with the advantage of hindsight, I am able to appreciate the difference in terms of culture and life in general.
Small town and big city are as opposite as night and day.

Everything is different: the way of life, the people, and the values held in esteem.
In a big city day upon day passes and you don't know where the time has gone; get up, go to work, go to a meeting, go to practice, maybe go to another meeting, go home, eat supper, have some free time, go to bed, get up. People are looking for better houses, better money, and better jobs. This is similar to a race.

People are so focused on success and getting ahead that they often don't take the time to enjoy the daily pleasures that life brings.
Usually they even don't know who is leaving the next door.

Big city: busy streets, dark clouds, gray exhaust, beep of horns, and a monotonous, got-to-get-ahead way of life.
The people of small town are models for wartmth and friendship. Everybody knows each other and theyare friendly to each other.
Days in small towns are not basis of a packed schedule, but an opportunity to receive what the worls and others has to offer.
Success there is not considered in terms of monetary value, but in the amount of happiness, that is present in the lives of the people and those around them.

The fresh, pollution-free air fills the soul, reminding anyone of how lucky they are to experience such freedom and simple pleasures without the restraints of time

To me, big city is the essence of materialism, small town the essence of freedom
and spontaneity.
Dear Tom I'm sure that you will enjoy life in the small town because that kind of ~r7 environment is definitely friendlier to our body, soul and psychical balance .


(ocena nauczyciela: B)