What is real big city life? What advantages and consequences does it have? Why is loneliness a fair price for it? Why should there be a cost to living in a big city? And who is to decide whether this price is fair or not? Letu2019s try to answer these questions.

What are the thoughts that come to your mind when you hear the phrase u201cbig city lifeu201d? As for me, they are cars, clubs, shopping, education, money, crowds, lack of time and so on. These are the things that make our life. So living in a big city sometimes means that you arenu2019t noticed, youu2019re forgotten and it all happens because of the fast pace of life, but not because people donu2019t like you or donu2019t want to socialize with you. Thatu2019s how, I guess, the feeling of loneliness can appear or cross your mind. Thatu2019s why, I think, that before giving responses to all the questions Iu2019ve put at the beginning, we should find out what loneliness is.

Sometimes people mix up the two notions of being lonely and being alone. Being alone is not a feeling; it is a state. It means that you are alone at the moment, or everybody turned away from you. But loneliness is a feeling and for me, it is a strange feeling, which usually appears when nobody can socialize with me, because of their business. You can stand on the street for several hours and nobody will pay attention to you. It means that you become invisible to other people. I canu2019t say exactly what loneliness is, because for every person it is different. For one person itu2019s the biggest fear in life, for another itu2019s just a simple feeling which he pays no attention. But as for me, loneliness is when nobody can help or support you. As I said before, loneliness is a feeling. It can appear in any moment of your life for different reasons.

During our lives, we always set some aims and try to reach them, forgetting all main values. But once we stop and look back we see that there is nothing left. If you live in a big city you have to obey its rules, even if they are cruel. If you want to achieve something in life, you must study and work a lot. And in this period of life, life in a big city absorbs you and you forget about everything else.

But we still havenu2019t answered the question: if loneliness is a fair price for a big city life. Once it was said that u201cWe must pay for everythingu201d. A big city gives us lots of opportunities and we use them as much as possible, forgetting about everything and becoming lonely, face to face with the city. And why is this price fair?

I pointed out four things for myself, which we pay for. These are life, health, love and loneliness. But if to take the least evil of all, I would choose loneliness, because to be lonely is better than to sacrifice your life. Thatu2019s why I think loneliness is a fair price to pay. Itu2019s only my opinion, but what choice you make remains a question.