At the beach with Lauren last weekend, she read aloud the following passage from a recent NY Magazine article... The article itself could have been written by any former New Yorker who just wasn't cut out to be a 'lifer,' as so many of us probably aren't. Lots of good nuggets in this one about the good, bad and ugly of living in the world's grandest city.
EXCERPT: "New York is all about what could be," says David Cloyd, a 34-year-old musician who moved to the city from Austin ten years ago. "You know: The potential. The possibilities." He’s echoing, of course, the aspirational mantra that’s lured a million hopeful dreamers to New York before him. And in exchange for this promise of limitless possibility, this tantalizing what-could-be, New York requires of these dreamers that they pursue two simultaneous lives: the romantic, invigorating, spectacular life you imagine for yourself, and the expensive, often dispiriting, intermittently grueling day-to-day life you have to lead in order to keep that dream life alive. This is exhilarating. This is exhausting. This is what New York is all about.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
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