City of Dreams
Brass Tacks: New York City by the numbers
- 3x Coffee tasting
- 3x Writing club attendance
- 3x Interview loop (2x Job offer!!)
- 3x Night out (each one with more stories to tell than the last)
- 3x Jay performance (2 band performances and one absolutely insane DJ set)
- 4x First date with beautiful woman
- 2x Comedy show ( if you include my friends’ comedies)
- 1x Michelin meal (+1 guide)
- 1x Art Museum
- 3-day San Francisco trip
- 4-day Boston trip + 4-days in NYC with work colleagues
- 6: maximum concurrent people staying at the 3-bed-1-bath apartment
- Ronan, David, Julia - you are troopers for this
- 1: Matt’s average slices per day in NYC (I probably come in at a disappointing 1/3)
Introspecting
In a less poetic and more stream of consciousness form, New York reminded me that variety is the spice of life. While I pride myself on consistency, letting go of that pattern and instead focusing on what I felt like doing that day enabled me to do so much more than I might have otherwise (see: above).
While NYC may not be the best long-term option for me, I loved the energy of the city - I got to do so much. I aspire to spend a month here annually, finding a similar gritty Chinatown apartment where I can be in close quarters with my friends, encouraging more to fly in and join the party during my tenure.
It’d be unfortunate to have spent all this time learning and not uphold the lessons in the rest of my life, so here’s what I intend to keep rolling:
The world’s got a whole lot in store for me the next few months, but for right now I’m taking advantage of every minute.
I always let the days slip away I should have been making up my mind I never opened up Took it all in and now I'm running out of time