New York, New York

Photos taken at Top of the Rock

What I wrote on my way home from New York City:

As I'm leaving a place that has been my home for a month, New York City. I'm thinking about why I love it so much. Maybe it's that you can have a interesting conversation with anyone, all the time. Maybe it's the art that is all around. You have the worlds best museums, broadway, endless street art. Maybe because this is the one place where people don't judge me, they like me for who I am. That it showed me that the outside world doesn't suck as bad as high school. The endless trains and cars taking you anywhere you want to go, any time of day. Or maybe because the whole world is at your fingertips and all that you have to do is walk outside. I think a major reason that I love New York is that Fashion Institute of Technology is there, and that's my favorite place in New York. I went there and everything is different. People are different from high school even though these kids are in high school. They got to know me as Maddie and not the labels kids in high school do. I was excited to go to school I don't remember ever feeling that. Ever. I could talk and people were listing to me. No one cared who was "cool" because we all were. To know that people my age were thoughtful and nice like me was amazing. I know longer counted down the days, I was sad when the day ended. I experienced not good times day to day for so long that I just forgot that it could ever be different. My problems seem unimportant now realizing that it was really just a high school thing. It helps to know that it's not just me. Even though I'm leaving NYC I'm not really. The only thing I'm leaving is the past, thinking that anyone couldn't be different. Even though I'm going back to where I live. I will never lose the part of me that knows that things will get better.

This Lana Del Rey video captures the nostalgia I was feeling when I left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj_myXdOLV0