Hustle to Save Your A$$

Um let me tell you a little something something.  New York ain't easy, you gotta hustle your a$$ off if you even think about staying here.  You follow leads which are usually dead, you follow opportunity that's always there but sometimes I walk back into the neighborhood that made me fall in love with NYC to begin with and feel like I got my ass handed to me.  There's a lot of running around, navigating that happens.  The energy is completely intoxicating, it makes you run.  The hustle is pretty epic to watch, the hustle is in every fast paced person.  You got to stop within the madness and hold yourself for a minute.  It could take you, dispose of you make you feel a tad lost.  I'm aware of the beauty within it but also understand the nature of the beast.  I watch people run, briskly walk and I wonder where there going and what they are chasing.  We are all chasing after something here, that's what I like to watch but now being one of "them" I wonder when and if it will ever run dry.  What does dry mean anyways?  To slow down, stop finally be content with what you've found.  Yikes!  Well I'm far from that being in the thick of it all.

Patience.  I think patience is a good word for the beginning paragraph.  Lets sit with that for a moment.  Why hustle so hard when you know you have gold in your pocket.  I know it's there so whats the point of feeling like it will run out.  I was told from someone VERY wise "your musical journey is a process, it doesn't happen overnight, do everything you can in one day not a weeks worth in one day."  Patience.  Lets have it if even for a moment.  Have it for the slow ass paying for their gas at Holiday in pennies.  Have it for the old lady bagging her own groceries.  Have it for the children running in the streets blocking your way.  Have it for whatever process you are trying to create.

New york has a funny way of making me run but why?  I got everything I need, New York you can start coming to me.  I'm in high heels mind you and a lady never runs in tricky heels because there is no shortage here.  The process is underway so screw that I'm going to hustle each day and no more then that.  So New York I love you but back-off and let me do my thing.


Love-

A girl wearing a vintage dress and high heels.