Two Lucky

Soho shooting

So much stuff happens in New York that it’s hard to keep up. It’s part of what’s so seductive about the city: There’s always an infinite number of events and activities that go on. You are one cell of a multi-cultural mosaic that affords you the anonymity of being completely distinct, but unremarkable.

Last night, a film crew was shooting a movie outside our apartment in Soho. The flood lights set up made it seem like noon, although it was already past midnight when Rusty and I got home. Earlier in the day, we had walked through Washington Square Park, and there was a movie being filmed there, too. I overheard someone say it was a “Will Smith” movie.

I know walking through movie sets is hardly consequential in any way, but I can’t help but feel a greater sense of the present when life is being recorded.

I think it’s because any attempt to preserve our present only makes its impermanence more evident. Sometimes I wish we had better, bigger brains to hold our memories - every scent, smile and touch.

But I suppose there is something to be said for the delight and gratification in re-discovering an old memory, and for forgetting.

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