Every Day

Over dinner Kyle & Pam asked me: “Do you miss NY?”

Easy answer: EVERY. DAY. All caps. Extra emphasis. Every day.

I refuse to remove my MTA card from my wallet. I stare at my NYC Subway app on my phone and I don’t have the heart to delete it or change its position. It’s at a super prominent and easily accessible location and I am not sure what should take its place. I am constantly adding 3 hours to the time. Brooklyn forecasts are still programed in my weather app. I barely changed the time settings on my laptop and email. My watches are definitely still set to Eastern Standard Time.

I’m not quite ready to let it all go yet.

Part of me still imagines I’ll be walking down 5th Ave. in the spring, passing by the Flat Iron Building and Madison Square Park on my way to work in the morning. That’s an old memory, my previous company isn’t even located there anymore—but it’s still one of my favorite run-of-the-mill memories of my old routine, so it sticks.

I’ll miss anything I get attached to, whether thats a person, place or thing—that’s human nature. I will forever miss New York. Extra emphasis.

But ask me how happy I am to be home. I’ll give you a good answer.