I don’t know why, but to me there’s nothing more relaxing
than looking at pictures of abandoned places. There’s something so beautiful
about the stillness, the quiet, the dilapidated emptiness. Knowing that a place
that was once crawling with people, busy and noisy is now only home to some
plants and maybe an animal or two… that’s real peace. Pair that with a cup of
tea, some soft music, and if possible, a gray, rainy sky, and you have my
perfect Sunday morning.
I come from a town with quite a few abandoned buildings. I
don’t think we have many more than the average town, but since we’re so small
the ones we do have stand out. So I grew up with empty places, and urban
exploration was a part of my life since I was old enough to explore the city on
my own. We have abandoned factories both old and new, stores, theatres, houses,
train trestles; we even had a huge boarding school, all completely void of
life. I never realised the effect they had on me until I started writing, when
I started to notice that I tended to talk about abandoned places a lot, and set
a lot of my stories in places like that.
All this probably sounds a little negative, talking about
emptiness and dilapidation and whatnot, but I really don’t mean it that way. I
really do think places like that are beautiful, even if they’re a little creepy
or sad. It’s always great to know that one of these places is going to get
redeveloped into something useful again. And it’s always even sadder to hear
when they get torn down, but good to know that where they used to be something
better is going to be made.
So, I made a mixtape of some of my favourite songs to listen
to while I urban explore through my computer. Something I can listen to after a
long hard working day, for a good night’s sleep, or in the morning before I
dive into a pile of homework. You can listen to it here:
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