I just wanted to add a little something to my last post. I DO NOT want you guys to think that by posting "50 reasons I love living in NYC" that I was just trying to brag about how cool of a city I live in. I mean yeah, it is really cool to live in New York, but there are a lot of cool places to live. Honestly that post was more for me. This has been an amazing year of my life, but also a tough one. I do love my life here, but I would be lying if I were to say it has not been challenging. I think it is easy to get caught up in the "grind" of life and to miss out on some of the really neat things around us. For me, I want to consistently stop and be able to appreciate the amazing city that I live in. As I was writing that post it reminded me again that I really do love this city. For those of you who think my life is super glamorous (I only say that because people tell me that alot) It really is not. There are definitely some "glamorous" aspects of living in Manhattan, but there are also some super big challenges that come with living life here. It really is a world of its own. Sometimes I still can't believe that I call this tiny, yet mega populated island my home!
So on another note! I don't know if any of you watched the show Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist tonight on ABC, BUT if you did then you got to see someone who is a part of my daily life!! Oh yeah baby, my Subway Man made national TV tonight!! Go Oscar!!!! Okay let me explain. Every week when I take the subway at Central Park West and 81st Street I get a AM New York paper from this man named Oscar. He is the most joyful person I have met in this city. Every morning rain or shine he has a smile on his face and greets everyone with a warm hello. I have talked about him for months to my friends. I mean I get a smile on my face when I start getting close to the station and I know I am going to see him. Really, I am not that weird, but it is just so nice to be greeted so incredibly warmly as I enter the rat race in the Subway station. I just always look forward to talking to him. WELL I am obviously not the only one he has impacted:-) because tonight he was on the Michael J Fox Special. MJF actually came to the subway station and gave out papers with Oscar one morning. Out of all the people that MJF could have interviewed the little subway man on 81st Street made national tv for his incredible optimistic attitude on life! I can almost guarantee you this man has had a hard life, but like he said tonight on TV, you have to choose to be positive. I know his job is not glamorous, but Oscar chooses to bring smilies to hundreds of uptight New Yorkers every morning! I have alot to learn from my subway man! I joke to my friends that I don't know if I can ever move, because I don't want to have to change subway men. Sounds crazy, but its the little things people that make this massive place feel like home!
If you did not watch the special, click HERE and you can watch the preview for the show. Oscar made it on the preview!
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