I could live like this forever

It was just like a music video that had been slowed down. People were dancing with drinks in hand, smiles on faces, careless whispers on the dance floor.

I stood by the balcony, and took in the whole scene in front of me. I’ve never felt happier, I realised. Immediately I felt a wave of sadness, because I could live like this forever. Yet, everything about it was so transient.

This, marked the moment where I subconsciously made a decision that only months later I would come to realise. I sipped my drink and thought back on the conversation I had with my friend, back when I lived in New York.

I’m thinking of heading home for good.

Yeah? I think about it all the time.

So why don’t you? California’s not that far from New York.

But what if it’s not everything I expect it to be?

Then you can move back to New York, and be where you are right now. Or, try something else.

I don’t know, I like the idea of having somewhere to go to that would be better than now.

That’s like having a wish list, but never fulfilling it.

Hmmm, you’re right. But sometimes having a dream is better than facing the ugly reality of it.

But you don’t know what the reality of it is.

True, which is why you and I are both here, talking about it.

I looked at the crowd once again and thought to myself, I could live like this forever.