La Ciudad

April 6, 2016

There’s something about the city that just inspires me.

Maybe its the skyscrapers, bright lights or just the hustle and bustle of it all.

I’ve always been a city girl.

I grew up in northern New Jersey, just a 30 minute train ride from New York City. Every time I would visit NYC, I would always picture myself living in a swanky apartment in Manhattan just like Carrie Bradshaw lol.

I currently live in Georgia. Not in Atlanta, about 30 minutes away.

To me, a major city like NYC ATL or LA represents a dream, or a destination and I always find myself to be just outside the city. Close enough to regularly visit, but too far away to actually live it.

I tend to look at things more abstract than the next person. I like to look past the literal to see if there’s a hidden meaning.

I wonder if there’s a deeper meaning to me always living outside the city but never actually in it.

I came up with two interpretations.

The first is that because I view the city as a dream, it means my dreams are always so close that I can taste it, but there always seems to be something in the way.

The second is that it represents Destination Addiction simply because I attach my happiness to something physical (like a city) and I will never be able to attain it. Just always looking at it from afar because what I’m truly in search of has nothing to do with physical things…

Xo,

Shiloh