i'm bucking pinkymcg blog trend and only mentioning one simple moment this week. this moment has been on my mind a lot recently as i walk the streets of my adopted home town. a large number of my friends are leaving the city for locations distant and often considerably warmer during the winter.
the mass exodus from NYC seems to have begun in may with gooch moving to dallas to pursue her dream job. then came clare taking her talents, VW beetle named daisy and contagious laugh to utah. and then the ward friends are systemically leaving to go to london, san francisco, utah, baltimore, toronto, australia, miami, etc. it seems that each time i walk through the doors of church there is another family who has recently announced that they are moving out of the city. enough already!
i definitely don't judge these friends who are choosing to take their life's journey down a path away from the concrete jungle. i'm just sad. the simple moment of life in new york city is that eventually almost everyone leaves.
the only way i've tried to stem the pain of separation is to give these moving friends a charge to always think in the back of their mind when they meet an LDS single man - "is this guy a possible good match for my totally awesome friend pinky?". if the answer given by their mind to that question is "yes" then it will make the long, short or miniscule time we spent together in nyc completely worth it.
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