Remember that time when
we splurged and got that hotel room on the 33rd floor of the
Marriott? We stayed up all night drinking sake and a few other things and
looking at all the pretty lights of the city. We were lucky it was a clear
night and we could even see the lake from up there. We talked about how nice
‘the good life’ must be. In the morning our good life would be over but we didn’t
want to think about that. From up there you can see everything, yet not see
much at all. We watched the little cars like toys buzzing through the streets
way down below. We heard the eerie sounds and echos of an ambulance bouncing
off the buildings. We tried to stay up all night to see daybreak but didn’t
quite make it. For one night, it felt like we were on top of the world. You
want it to last, but you know it can’t. In the morning, we were back near the
bottom. That’s the yin and yang of it all.
