​Having been here for a couple of months now I kind of understand some of these peoples reactions on me. I know that it is not that many western people here. Even I have started to notice them when I see them (which is only a few times a week). 
I guess there is just so much people everywhere in this city that you get some of all kinds. It can be quite overwhelming to see how much different kind of behavior there is in one place, if you come straight from a more quiet place. And any place is quiet compared to Mumbai. It is a city where you need to know where to go when you’re out. You can’t just go out and drift around in the same way as you can do in basically any city in Europe. You can but it is not as easy here. Just going for a wonder and hope to find a nice café to sit down at for a nice coffee or a pub to grab a beer in, is not really as likely here I have discovered. It has happened to me a few times in the beginning that I just got lost in the chaos of the city or ended up walking around in some poor and dirty area. You need to plan your day here, but still you know that anything can happen after you’ve gone out the door. You can always end up in trouble as well as you can always end up with the most promising opportunities. Every day I meet many people that is coming up whit all sorts of ideas and proposals. It is so much of everything in this city that you can’t say you love it or hate it. It brings up strong emotions of all kind. Life takes quick turns here. 
Every time I have got here to Mumbai it has taken me a couple of days just to get over the chock of the city. Followed by a couple of weeks with full tempo. Then I am done and have to leave. But for every time I have come back here, I have lasted longer and longer. I remember once when I had been here only for a couple of days. I stood with the door knob in my hand and my bag on my shoulder, ready to go out and leave my home for the day. In my head I am going through all the things I have with me that I would need for the day. I am going through the different places I will visit. How I will get from place to place. Going to the gym, meet that person at that place, have lunch at that place. There I can charge my phone and so on. Without battery on my phone I might not be able to get back. That’s where I have the map and all contacts.

Wagons full of onions. Broccoli is considered as an exclusive vegetable which is imported and expensive. People grinding knifes using bicycles. Strange vehicles are driving around. Babies are crawling around on the sidewalks. Fire. Rats big as puppies. People without legs. Dwarfs. Explosions. Transvestites. Colorful cloths. Painted faces. People sleeping on the ground. Big dumps of garbage. Smashed cars covered in dust. Old motorcycles piled up on each other in a big stack as if it was a garbage station or the background in a scene from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 You see someone looking similar to someone you think you know but turns out being wrong. Strangers are coming up expecting me to know who they are. All sort of craziness is going on. It is just such an obscene amount of living souls in the same place that all combinations of personalities are right there in front of you. Everything of everything. Obviously plenty of really good, nice and genuine people. Friendly, serious and helpful people. But also an insane amount pure rotten souls. People think a lot about money here. They talk a lot about bread and butter. But never have I ever seen any sort of violence here. And however you are. Whatever you do. You are not the only one being like that or doing what you do. This compact amount of living souls and energy makes people eventually aware of spirituality. The lives here are going in to each other. People are literally walking into each other. People feel each other in a different way from in Europe. There is always someone near by, or in your way. Someone with a mother complex life story, opinions, considerations and value. We are all together. We are all of the same. It becomes clear how we are all the same. How we are all one. One spirit.