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Bangalore: The City I See With A Heart Full Of Gratitude
I owe this city a lot! It pushed me out of my comfort zone, challenged my knowledge of things, gave me friends who became family, and showed me the beauty of growth, even when it’s painful.
This article is the third in a series of 12 Months, 12 Cities And A Year Of Transformations.
Have you ever had a feeling with something or someone that having this one thing/person in your life changed your life in a way that you never thought you needed? Bangalore or Bengaluru is the same feeling for me!
This city is exactly what I needed to grow as a person. But I never knew this fact, before spending 5 years of my life here.
I arrived in Bangalore in 2019, with a job offer in hand. The job that I left as soon I arrived in the city, as I was suspicious of their Agreement clause to work overtime! My welcome to this city wasn’t a great one, at least it felt like that at the moment- limited savings, no job, breakup and expectation to prove myself. However, over time, I realised everything that has happened here with me and to me, deserves to be a bestseller book in itself.
So this year, in March, I took my partner around Bangalore. I retraced the steps of my years here and gave him a walk-through of how this city has given me a home, and transformed me in ways I…
