Now I have been a stalwart citizen of both cites throughout my life, and have been in perpetual state of immigration between, the opposite cities called Levity and Sobriety. Imagine, if you would, that Levity and Sobriety are cities built at the opposite ends of a long valley. Levity, the magnificent, is a city full of ruckus and tumult. The citizens there live at high stakes while wearing flashy clothes, driving vintage, and always at hand to a party. Whereas Sobriety, the nobel, is a city reserved and quiet. It's citizenry also live at high stakes, but they know they do, and care accordingly while they dress with dignity, driving moderately.
Levity, the city of the eternal party, once a long time ago accused it's sister city of actually boring it''s citizens to death. And Sobriety, the city of eternal prudence, countered by launching an advertising campaign to show how Levitarians were drowning in their own shallowness. Apparently, while the mass of the peoples in both cities were not effected by either of these claims, there were a scattering of individuals convinced.
If you happened to be traveling the road that connected the two, you'd see emigrants making the pilgrimage from once city to the other, often passing each other going opposite directions. Those going from Levity to Sobriety looked bedraggled, tired, and hung-over, rarely bringing anything with them but the clothes on their back. Those travelers leaving Sobriety to move to Levity looked stuffy, boring, and looking excited to finally have a cut of the action, While those going to sobriety looked broke, those coming from there had apparently amassed small fortunes, and were intent to use their wealth to fuel the party.
In recent years, I have come to realize that the best place to live in the entire valley, is not in Sobriety nor Levity, but on a bluff overlooking the whole valley, and from my vantage point I can see the helium balloons rise above the skyline of Levity, and I can hear the chamber music issuing from Sobriety. In my locale, I get the best of both worlds: I get the joys of Levity and the sane wisdom of Sobriety. Plus, not a lot of people live out here, so I picked up the land cheep!
Levity, the city of the eternal party, once a long time ago accused it's sister city of actually boring it''s citizens to death. And Sobriety, the city of eternal prudence, countered by launching an advertising campaign to show how Levitarians were drowning in their own shallowness. Apparently, while the mass of the peoples in both cities were not effected by either of these claims, there were a scattering of individuals convinced.
If you happened to be traveling the road that connected the two, you'd see emigrants making the pilgrimage from once city to the other, often passing each other going opposite directions. Those going from Levity to Sobriety looked bedraggled, tired, and hung-over, rarely bringing anything with them but the clothes on their back. Those travelers leaving Sobriety to move to Levity looked stuffy, boring, and looking excited to finally have a cut of the action, While those going to sobriety looked broke, those coming from there had apparently amassed small fortunes, and were intent to use their wealth to fuel the party.
In recent years, I have come to realize that the best place to live in the entire valley, is not in Sobriety nor Levity, but on a bluff overlooking the whole valley, and from my vantage point I can see the helium balloons rise above the skyline of Levity, and I can hear the chamber music issuing from Sobriety. In my locale, I get the best of both worlds: I get the joys of Levity and the sane wisdom of Sobriety. Plus, not a lot of people live out here, so I picked up the land cheep!
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