The Blue Notebook

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The thing with time is that it makes us romanticize the good and forget about the bad. Let this journal be the reminder of my suffering, the documentation proving that even if all goes well, you caused me pain beyond most of what I am willing to remember. If I am ever to doubt that happiness comes with a price, may these letters be readily available.

29. New York, New York

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Transition

The Humans While this play was not originally the Broadway show my Broadway buddy and I intended to watch today (the one that we wanted to attend did not offer rush tickets today), we certainly did not regret watching The Humans. This play was, real, perhaps too real. It was, in some regards, too close to home. This show has to be the most contemporary, realistic, and authentic performance I have seen on Broadway. It was different, and while I admittedly prefer to go to musicals, this play delivered. On an unrelated note, the Playbills have changed!

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Catalina Island Much like last year, I needed to go home, so I flew to Los Angeles. But every time I go home to California, home feels less and less like home. My friends have moved, people change, and life goes on. I should not have been surprised, but I was. This time however, unlike last year, I chose to do something new. I went to Catalina Island for the first time. It was the perfect vacation, though much too short. I felt privileged walking the same streets that Reagan once walked. Everything was wonderful, but something was in the back of my mind. This trip marked the beginning of the end of our story Ms. Gewyns, at least for me. I suspect it may have ended for you long ago.

"Kaleidoscope" by Coldplay Do you know how some songs just play the right strings in you sometimes as if it is exactly what your soul needed to hear? This song is exactly that. Coldplay has always had a way of doing that to me.

The New York Philharmonic at The Lincoln Center

Imagine a scenario in which you are to be sent to the past to change something important, a turning point in human history. However, the problem is that you will not remember what you were supposed to prevent or do until the exact moment in which what you were supposed to change has just happened. You know that will happen, but you still go trusting that by the simple fact that you are older and presumably wiser, you will know what to do when the time comes. The mission could be anything from taking a specific train, to preventing Lincoln from going to the theater. However, you only regain your future’s consciousness until after the moment has occurred, whether you succeed or not.

"Birds" by Coldplay I am finally going to go see Coldplay this summer!!! In 2012 I was in Germany when they came to the U.S. and when I returned, they went to Germany. In 2014 I was in D.C. when they not only went to my home state, but they performed at my alma mater! This year, it is finally happening!

The Lion King Finally! After only a year and a half I finally got around to paying the most money I have ever spent on a Broadway ticket in order to experience one of the musicals I passionately wanted to see since I moved to New York City! The Lion King delivered! Disney took a childhood favorite and brought it to life the way only Broadway can. It helps that there is not one bad seat in the Minskoff Theatre! As I relived this classic story, I could not help but to draw the contrast between watching this movie every day as a child, with attending its Broadway rendition, in New York City, in a suit, after a day of work, at a law firm. Time has raced by; but there is no denying it, I am an adult. Still, I will never cease to be a Disney enthusiast.

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