I'm having a moment (or: falling in love with NYC, and my friends, all over again)

There are so many amazing things about NYC -- and more specifically, living in NYC -- that I'm not sure it'd be possible for me to list all of them.

What I can easily say, though, is that living here feels completely right to me...and that just when I think I've gotten used to living here, I'll have a moment when I look around and fall in love with the city all over again. Canned though it sounds, the energy, possibilities, people and sheer clusterfuck that is millions and millions of people moving in some sort of flow between each other (and a lot of buildings) does amazing things for me -- both in terms of energy and happiness, and just plain old mental health.

What's even cooler, though, is that in the 2-1/2 years I've lived here, I've managed to find an amazing group of friends -- an Urban Family, if you will -- in the city, and those people make NYC home.

I had my second annual Easter Feast with a good portion of my NYC Urban Family this afternoon, and I'm now happily full of beer, brisket, carbs and veggies. But more importantly, I left feeling grateful for the chance to know such fabulous people, and I fell in love with my life here all over again. Which feels pretty friggin' good.

Comments

[Alison]

That's very cool. :)

[sizzle]

You've lived there 2.5 yrs? Damn I've known you a while (in blogisphere time that is). :-)