The only constant in my life is change. Change will come and I've managed to deal with it well. Even times when it doesn't come, I force it to happen. I get antsy with the comfortable life but maybe I'm just scared of being normal. My greatest fear growing up was dying alone, but these days, I seek solitude and fear being like everyone else. In Princeton, we all drive to the same place; Target or Trader Joe's. Anytime of the day, its like an apocalypse is about to happen. Families frantically stocking up on their produce and dry products. We've been having bi-weekly trips to New York and even with the congestion and traffic, its a bit of fresh air. The only city that I feel comfortable calling home. Even with all those changes to Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn is still the borough I spent 10 of my past 35 years in. 35 going on 36. It's odd because I feel 50 plus and I realize I'm only in my mid thirties.
I spent the early half of my 30's in South Korea. Within the small country, we've managed to move 3 times. Seoul is a city I can't remember entirely. Everything that's happened within the past 5 and a half years seem like it all took place within a vacuum. Nightly drinking binges, afternoon rice wine binges, the chain smoking, karaoke rooms and chicken delivery. You can have just about anything delivered in Korea and just about anything is open till the early morning. Cost of going out is moderately cheap.
Moving back to the states, so much and so little has changed. Maybe I was never the savvy business man, or the serious artist but navigating the world of entrepreneurship and self-promotion has become harder than when I had left. When I left back in 2010, these are some of the things I did not own:
1. iphone
2. instagram account
3. linkedin account
4. etsy account
5. pinterest account
6. chairish account
I think I'm forgetting a couple of accounts but yeah, never have I had so many accounts before. And quite frankly, none are making me any richer or more famous.
Yesterday I opened up a GIPHY account and started uploading some videos and turning them into GIFs.
With so many outlets, the biggest challenge will be editing the ways we approach business or self-promotion. The other challenge will be to carefully curate the way we utilize this new way of living.
Some days I feel as if I'm trapped within my instagram feed. Other days I want to drift to sleep and dream. But the world is not the way I left it, and it will never be that way again.
