Buried
Forecast says a huge snow storm is going to hit NYC this weekend. Maybe the biggest in 5 years.
January 2016 - 10 years ago, I moved back to NYC after 10 years away. A big snow storm hit the week I was settling into my apartment in Gramercy Park. I have a very distinct memory of eating a shitty meal at Orion Diner late one night because I hadn’t gotten any groceries yet and it was too cold to go further than a block or two. The food was terrible, but the memory is nice. But I also have learned since then that memories aren’t real. We just piece them together like movie montages to make footage we need. I sometimes feel like I just got back here even though 10 years have gone by and a lot has obviously happened. I got everything I wanted in those 10 years, everything I came back for… and it turns out that maybe I didn’t actually want any of it. Maybe there was some sort of metaphor in that snow storm 10 years ago and I wasn’t paying attention.
