why i love new york summers part v: because

because, the light filters through the trees in a way that you’d forgotten, making beautiful silhouettes that you no longer take for granted.
because, we wear our beauty so proudly, most of us achieving that moment before flaunting it, leaving just enough for the imagination. New York bodies…so lithe and beautiful and bathed in sunlight. Who doesn’t live here that doesn’t love each moment that the sun shines enough to beat against their skin. Maybe its respite against the bold winters.
because, I feel like I’m seventeen again. These moments always feel like they can last forever, even when my age and my wisdom knows they can’t. I can feel beautiful and young and a part of it all. Some how this here and this now gives us this gift.
because, I drink wine in the park like I’m making love in broad daylight. Bottles everywhere. Abandonment. We just simply don’t care.
because, babies run through the parks and because we can pet random dogs in front of cafe’s on lafeyette and feel that its our rite to be as happy as they are when we greet them.
because, I can gather my friends on any given day and we have no excuse or rhyme or reason. It isn’t a holiday or a birthday, we just wanted to savor those last few moments and watch the sun dip down perfectly between the trees. Wax poetics about where the summer went and how fast it passes.
because, for hours everything can be possible and nothing forgotten.
because, these are the moments we live for. The moments we live HERE for. Breathing. Beating.
And because I could possibly ode New York summers forever. Because, it gives us a reason to keep living here through the harsh coldness and the angry pedestrians. Because, where else will we go.
You know it once you lived here, New York love is very different than any love you’ve ever experienced; from any habitat that you’ve ever lived.
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