I’ve lived here for two years now… A video once mentioned that we should all live once in New York City, but move before it makes us too hard. I find it quite true. It is one of the most fast paced cities I’ve seen. Not everyone can live here. If you enjoy the outdoors and to hear birds singing, then this is certainly not the place for you.
Ok, so there are MANY people everywhere, you know that already, but what you don’t know is that most of them feel more alone in this ginormous city than you may ever imagine. On the other hand, you may never feel alone in this city. Most of the places I’ve visited here I’ve done it alone and I’ve learned to truly enjoy it. Like Carrie Bradshaw says, the city is my date.
Unlike any other American city, where everyone smiles and is overly polite, most people here don’t care if they bump you on the street, or you fall over in a hole, or you simply have a bad day. Life is too busy to worry about someone else’s. People here go to bed too late at night and wake up too early in the morning. Hey, haven’t you heard what they say, that NYC is the city that never sleeps? Time is simply not enough. Cars don’t run fast enough. There aren’t enough restaurants, museums, things to do and see for people to grasp (there are said that there are about 10.000 or so restaurants in NYC). There can never be enough money to enjoy what the city has to offer. NYC can slap you in the face and can treat you bad, but its magic craziness still holds eight million people altogether.
New York City is undoubtedly overwhelming, but people love it, a love-hate relationship of shorts. There is nothing like it; even if it’s dirty and there are rats in the subway and cockroaches in ugly redbrick apartment buildings, and ridiculously expensive studios, I still love it. Each time I leave it and come back, I feel I can breathe again. In a strange way, I feel like it’s my second home. So why do we love it so much? Is it the diversity, the restaurants, the museums, the Broadway shows, the Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, the glamour of Fifth Ave? Probably. But for me, it’s mostly seeing people walk down the street, looking at them, studying them; it’s all about the movement of waves of people. Everything and anything can happen here. It’s fascinating.
Good night, New York, it’s late, you have to get up early tomorrow…
“Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today, I want to be a part of it, New York, New York… And make a brand new start of it, New York, New York. I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps, to find I’m king of the hill, top of the heap…” – Frank Sinatra
