"Just nod if you can hear me," as Pink Floyd put it in that song.
Oh, New York is a big town. A biiig town! And yet sometimes it's frustrating to live in it.
I remember, when I lived in Germany, my town had about 200,000 people in it. For me, that is a very tiny number--and I felt it, too. The streets begin repeating themselves after only a few weeks; most of the store owners whose businesses you regularly patronize now greet with a smile and a nod of recognition (unheard of!); the people in your neighbourhood know who you are, even if you haven't bothered telling them. Ah, the "village" life.
So what about "New Yawk," eh?
Things here...are a little different. It's actually quite something. You can walk down a crowded midtown avenue where thousands of people float by at a time, and yet as far as getting to know even one of them is concerned, you might as well be in different dimensions.
Naturally, you will say, "Come on, Sebastian. You don't meet people while rushing down the street mid-day running errands."
Yes, yes. Touché.
What does that leave us next, then?
Hm...activities. Join a club of some kind! Take some courses at the local community college. Go to bars.
All these things are fine, but I think the big advantage to leveraging yourself with the internet is that you can openly state what it is you seek and thereby streamline the process a little. Does that sound too clinical? Either way, using the internet is not exactly a bag of roses either, since you are receiving only bits and snippets of another person's personality.
In way of answering my own question:
Yes, there are many of us out there. I am here writing this, you are there reading this. But we're not together having fun and that's the problem. Hah. Sooner or later, I will have to discover you or you'll have to take the plunge and reach out to me. Whatever happens, I hope one of us takes the chance, 'cause walking around Chinatown in downtown Manhattan is very dull when you don't have someone to share it with.
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