the waste land from above

After taking off from MSY, I took a glance down at the city I called home. What I saw was a sea of shimmering lights in almost a grid-like form. Th beauty of seeing your city from an eagle eye pov is you get to see all angles, streets, lights, and buildings of your home. I find this sea of light beautiful, but some may not. We, for the most part, have all grown up in a city, we have adapted and fell in love with the city lifestyle, but other in the world have not. Some people in the world live in isolation, seclusion, away from our cities. You might be wondering, where is he going with this? well, the top down view that I so love of our city might be horrendous for someone else. Th lights and buildings might just appear as a maze of stress and crime, some may even call it a...wasteland. I'm using this situation as an example of the different ways the word wasteland can be used, in this context, I'm applying it to the city life. Something that is more common in cities than in farm-land is poverty and homeless people. Let's are realm there's a lot of impoverished citizens in our city. along with poverty, some parts of our city are run down or abandoned; the streets are probably the most wasted part of our city, when driving uptown it feels like you're in a wast land because of all of the craters and ditches that one has to traverse. A wasteland doesn't have to be some post-apocalyptic desert or a junkyard, it can be a bustling city, it just depends on whos using the word.