Maybe it has to do with all that existentialism. If you can’t even decide if you exist or not, who cares what color the building is painted

One thing that really trips me out in Paris, is that all the buildings are beige. Every single shade of beige that could be imagined and then some. Is there some kind of unwritten rule about this, did all the Parisians long ago decide on this particular aesthetic? I have heard that in New York City, all the brownstones are brown because when you mix all the paint colors together, thats what you get. That could be just an urban legend, but was this what happened in Paris, but in a lighter way? Maybe it has to do with all that existentialism. If you can’t even decide if you exist or not, who cares what color the building is painted. Well, I guess in the end its probably all for the better, although a bit peculiar. If you just let people paint the buildings however they want, your most likely gonna end up with some bad results. A purple, pink and bright green Paris, would just ruin the experience.

Even with all the charm, mystery, history and culture that one encounters when they first find themselves in the “City of Lights”, Paris, one can’t help but notice certain aspects of the city that seem a bit stale and outdated.  It doesn’t even seem like it’s holding on to it’s past glories and it’s place as the center of the western world, just a century ago. But seems, at this point, to be just stuck with a bunch of old things and ways.  Like a favorite shirt that was still proudly worn a couple of months ago, even with the few small stains and missing buttons, but now looks so bad that your friends start to wonder about your financial situation, when worn out for a night on the town. This is not to say that Paris isn’t still magnificent in it’s own specific way or that it doesn’t live up to the image that it projects out to the world, which it does and then some. It’s just that it resembles a museum and a museum is a place for an objects final resting place, not for its creation.