After months and months of unexcusable silence, I have finally gotten my act together and am putting down the words that have been circling around in my head on paper! As my title reads, I have made my big move to New York – all 10,000 miles of it! I have a shoebox I can call my own and I love it. It is small, but it is cozy. It comes with its problems, but nothing that I can’t deal with. And I have not had a breakdown.. just yet. 
So on the whole, a big plus. Becoming a student again – gosh what a paradigm shift. Can’t believe I thought that was the easy part!
It is perhaps fortunate that I moved to New York from a city. The city life and speed of the city does not intimidate me as much. Having said that though, New York has a hustle that cannot be seen in any other city. People are always so hungry, trying to get bigger and better – and this is everyone from the men and women of wall street, to the kids working in grocery shops. The hustle is probably what makes New York addictive.
Of course, it is so easy to get jaded here. When you are thrown in a city with so much promise, so much drive, so much shopping, so much food – something’s gotta give. It was hard for me to stop thinking ” The subways make me feel icky and the homeless people make me nervous.”
But when I got past that, what impressed me about New York is how much you can do, and how it is a place for everyone. Often when you are in a city, you will sense that it has a uniform character – perhaps the fashion is very similar, the types of housing, the general feel of the people. With New York, all such generalisations go right out of the window. You can wear what you like, be whom you want to be, stay wherever you feel like. It is a place where 7 figure salaried Armani clad bankers and broke artists live hand in hand.
I am yet to discover the city as fully as I would like, and save for many trips to many bars around the city and the usual suspects of shopping in Soho and Times Square and running in Central Park, I am yet to get the real feel for this city. But that will be my challenge over the next 2 years. I will figure this place out! Keep reading for (hopefully) more exciting posts!
