There’s something about a city that makes your heart beat a tad faster. A little like this dress.
The city has its way of draining a person out. After being on overdrive for a whole week, life has a tendency to get stale. Like your favorite food, it loses its edge after a while. We, like the places we confine ourselves to, become as dull and boring as our surroundings. Dull and boring equals out to lack of inspiration.
You have your entire life to be comfortable, to sit in your house and bask in the familiarity of it. 
But right now, while you’re young and uncomfortable, keep going, keep challenging yourself. Keep making yourself uncomfortable. Because it’s only when we’re uncomfortable that we are growing and learning.
As buildings changed to quaint bed and breakfasts, bustling vehicles and trains turned into horse carriages and vintage automobiles and cold grouchy New Yorkers turned to people who seem to actually have hearts. Leaving business in the city – my phone, emails, laptops and moleskins, I found my breaths more calming, my mind more relaxed. Although there was one thing I couldn’t part with and it was this dress. I guess can take the girl out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the girl.
A collaboration with SalSit.
Photography by Jenellie Troche.