It's Only A Picture

Yes...it's a subway platform. I sat on this subway platform last night reading a book when out of now where I had this flashback...Someone I once knew getting on the subway for the first time....I remember looking and thinking they are not going to make it...they are going to be next to one of those crazy people that take out their laundry on the subway or try to eat soup....they are going to have to ask for directions. I sat on the subway platform and one train went by and I didn't even notice because I was so stuck in this moment of laughter and memories...its amazing what emotion a picture can trigger...after all it's only a subway platform.


Yes...it's Times Square. In all the years I have lived in NYC, visited NYC and worked in midtown I have hated Times Square. From the lines outside of MTV when I was an intern there to my days of walking through it to get to 1155 6th Ave. Now I am a little more nostalgic...can one person's adoration for Times Square make you appreciate it a little more? I guess it must have because I find myself more like a tourist when I walk through it (gasp, I know). I look up and see what's around...I check out the different shows that are playing and I get excited at the thought that maybe the Naked Cowboy will be playing his guitar. It's all in a picture...every time I look at this picture I think of someones first time in the bright lights and how amazing it must feel.

So if you are like me you finished reading this blog entry and thought...ummm where is she going with this and what is she on? Well the truth is I am not sure but I was humming the lyrics to the Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow song "Pictures" last night and I realized something...pictures are the greatest triggers of emotion, whether positive of negative they cause you to re-live and re-feel things like nothing else can. And more than anything I just wanted some of those memories back. So to quote the lyrics to the song..."I thought about you for a long time. I can't seem to get you off my mind. I can't understand why we're living life this way"