Blinders

Central Park South

"I love New York. But loving it comes with an important admission. No, not about the skyrocketing, dystopian cost (that’s a separate conversation). It is that when you live a life there, and particularly when you let the city itself define you, then you sometimes don’t realize the ways it changes you for the worse. The ways it curls up into your body and grabs hold of your bones, not in a way that it helps settle you, but in a way that confines you. The way it puts blinders on you. The way it makes you stop seeing other places as relevant, let alone something that could compare. Because when you are 'the best,' then how could anything ever compare?" Michael Symonds, Patreon