Severance

“To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made for you during the morning and evening rush, winding through the crowds of fellow commuters. To live in a city is to consume its offerings. To eat at its restaurants. To drink at its bars. To shop at its stores. To pay its sales taxes. To give a dollar to its homeless.
To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?”

This quote from the book really stayed in my head because I feel like it describes what life in the city essentially is and the kind of people that it takes to live in a concrete jungle. Especially in the city that never sleeps. Where even if you stop moving, nothing around you ceases or pauses. Adaptability is what defines city folk as we have to adapt to disruptions in commute, while we’re in transit, in our sleep and work. Not a single aspect of our lives is unaffected daily.

-Rachel