'NYC Fit Living'

Perhaps, old friend—before sun signs were named, before planets learned their orbits and humans learned to read them— consciousness made its first and most significant agreement: to forget itself upon arrival. Not a loss, but an initiation. Not a punishment. Not a fall. A forgetting— so profound it might someday be mistaken for identity. So complete  that the ocean learned to answer to the name drop. So convincing...  that the screen forgot itself and began arguing with the movie. So intimate... that the sky mistook the clouds for its own movement. This marks the birth of the beggar. The beggar isn't poor because it lacks substance— it is poor because it believes it does. It wakes every morning, narrating a story: I must become something. I must get somewhere. I must fix, improve, acquire, and defend. It takes on every role in the stage of life— hero and victim, seeker and sinner, success and failure— never realizing it is both the actor and the stage. And while this performan...