Lean Into It

This thought comes from when I was travelling with my school to New York City for the AWNY Conference, held every year at FIT School of Design.  We hadn't been there long, and after having been delayed on the runway for 2 hours, we were motivated for some food.  We were walking to the Mad Hatter which was just around the corner, and still trying to get accustomed to the pace of the city.  I thought about how much different it was there than it was from way out in a town no one had ever heard of, and how no one in the city seemed to pay attention to anything around them.  I was looking up at the buildings and ran squarely into a woman who was walking the other direction.  It wasn't that she wasn't paying attention, but that she had nowhere else to go, since our entire group was taking up the sidewalk.  I wasn't looking obviously, but I have to assume that she was trying to get out of my way, since I was closest to the building and she was trying to slide between it and myself.  She took a hell of a hit, and I certainly felt it too.  We both apologized, but I think she was doing it just so I wouldn't feel bad as it wasn't her fault at all.  As for the lesson.... wow, look at all these people not paying attention... IN MY FACE.

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