New York
Every time I have an opportunity to walk through this great city, I fall in love. It isn’t just that everything is here for anyone who needs anything. Material possessions are fleeting. It isn’t just that it is a city of progressive, live-and-let-live people.
New York is a city where the lives of millions of people from all walks of life converge. My love for New York is an extension of my love for life and humanity. It is a city of infinite possibilities, where human potential can be realized. It is a city where I can be a church-going Christian, queer, Marxist, and vegan, and no one thinks it all that odd. It is a city where you can walk into a bar and make a new friend.
New York is the original social network. I don’t think I truly understood what it meant to love life before I lived here.
It’s a huge city, but a small town in its own way. This morning, I met our neighbour at the subway station. We had a pleasant chat all the way to Columbus Circle. And then he went his way, I went mine, and the beat goes on.
Dino Sarma-Weierman - August 4, 2011 at 10:23 am |