Living in New York forces a person to live in extremely close proximity to your neighbor. This concept is very foreign to most west coast lifers. There are many different perspectives one can take when approaching these new found realities. I have chosen to embrace it and enjoy being surrounded by busy energies. Take for example riding the subway. I board the L train at the Morgan stop in Brooklyn and am immediately bombarded with people screaming, hipsters rockin their ipod, babies crying, sketchy folks staring and three kids huddled around some video game player. Its times like these that one could flee but no I ride. I ride towards the city and stop by stop my new found friends and I slowly begin to accept each other and become more and more comfortable. Eventually we hit the Bedford stop, last chance to get off before dropping down the rabbit hole to Manhattan. Doors open and shut and we are off. All inhabitants of the train are secretly off to a plethora of different activities but for a short period of time a sense of community / family exists. New York binds people together in this most unexpected and beautiful way.
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