lights at night

why is so much comfort given when you are in a foreign city, walking outside at night and you look up to see the glow of lights in apartment buildings, the shape of furniture - a high backed chair, a TV on a stand, a pot plant - and shadows moving around, going about their business ... cups of tea, a move from one room to another, stillness sitting at a table.

is it voyeurism?

feels more like connection, but maybe I am romanticising things.