Marcel Winatschek

How Beautiful Shanghai Is

A guy posted a photo on Reddit of his Shanghai hotel room view. Brown air completely obscuring the next building over. Not some exotic poison gas attack—just the regular atmosphere loaded with industrial pollution. I had this idea about visiting China someday, maybe multiple times. Just voluntarily moved that dream way further back.

The air quality index hit 6. That’s the level where you don’t throw your worst enemy into that air. Maybe you do if you hate them enough. But not this guy. Not the nice man from the hotel. Unless he’s my worst enemy somehow. I’m going to stop thinking about this now.