One of my favorite photos, taken by my friend Sean, posted with permission.I’m not a huge

One of my favorite photos, taken by my friend Sean, posted with permission.
I’m not a huge fan of La Joconde, mais there’s always a flock of people around it. Living in Paris for nearly a year, I’ve begun to regard short-stay tourists with some sort of fascination. I will never experience the city in that way. It will always hold this feeling of an old home, I think.

Like a house you lived in as a young child, the neighborhood might change and different plants grow, and maybe someone renovates it, but it still maintains some essential familiarity.