The City That Never Sleeps

I stood on my balcony this evening, watching the cars crawl along the highway like glowing ants. It was one of those nights where the humidity hangs heavy, and the city feels like it is breathing right along with you. I often wonder if we are meant to live so close together, stacked in these concrete towers, miles above the earth. There is a strange comfort in it, though. Even when I feel lonely, I look out at the thousands of tiny, flickering windows and realize that everyone else is just as busy living their own private, complicated lives. We are all connected by these invisible threads of light, tethered to the same grid, yet drifting in our own separate orbits. It makes the world feel vast and intimate all at once. Does the city feel like a cage to you, or does it feel like a heartbeat?

Siew Bee Lim has captured this exact feeling of urban connection in the image titled A View from the Sky Bridge. It perfectly mirrors that moment of looking out over the grid and feeling both small and part of something much larger. What do you see when you look out at the city at night?