Sensory overload.

It really is like a love story. You have these wonderful expectations of the magnificent concrete jungle. The bright lights, the people, the music, the food... How can it let you down? It can't! right? You put all your excitement and trust into it. It gives you that needed confidence boost you need. It's like your boyfriend holding you tight and whispering "you got this". And then all of a sudden, it doesn't matter what anyone says now, you got this. And that's manhattan. 

You see the skyline and you feel the buzz and you know... you got this. This past weekend Manhattan hurt my feelings a little. I can't put my finger on it exactly, too much time, not enough time, or too much chaos, all maybe all of the above. I mean spending time in Midtown can at times be exhausting, you're continuously dodging people, running for the lights, avoiding crazy people (literally) and the smiling but "no thank you" to people shoving brochures in your face". After a while its like sensory overload. Way too much for way too long, so I think my mistake was too much time in Midtown. It's just like spending a little too much 'one on one' time with your partner, you kind of want to kick them in the shins and put your head phones in with a coffee after a while. That's how I felt about NYC this weekend. It was like our first argument after our honeymoon period. Didn't expect that one but I knew I would just need to reassess things. 

BUT it's Thursday night and I am going into the city earlier than usual. 

My host dad said tonight, where are you off too tonight? It's 32 degrees and so hot. Staying indoors in the aircon would be nice but I'm off to the city to meet my Uncles for dinner in Manhattan. He says "do you know where you're going?" I reply while cooking the kids dinner, "yeah yeah the train pulls in at 34th and ill just jump on the A subway up to 42nd and walk to 44th and down 8th" he says, "Look at you, you New Yorker!" Huh. Look at that. 

On the train on my way in, I'm so excited, once again. Look at that, that didn't take too long after all. Don't upset me again NYC please, at least not for a little while.