The Finnegan Papers

Tuesday, Dec. 02, 2003 - 12:24 p.m.

perspective

Your whole perspective on life changes the moment you realize that your doggy is actually following you around the house. It also changes the first time you practice night photography from the rooftop of your friend's Times Square penthouse. This perspective continues to change while dining at Kodama Sushi -- finally satisfying a 6 month-long sashimi craving -- and ending the night with a showing of "Lost in Translation," the film she told you to watch.

Last night, I couldn't sleep. From my 23rd story vantage point, I looked out upon the neon-glitz of the Square, so similar to Tokyo, and I remembered all over again why I've been feeling the way I do. It's this ache of waiting; this sense that everything is wrong, totally wrong, and in a rare moment of clarity, you know precisely what must be done.

My friends: I think my life is about to change again.

~Finn

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