Today at work, a bunch of interns mentioned something about the 'Projects' in NYC. I have absolutely no idea what the Projects are and I have been in New York for 2 years. I'm so out of touch... Anyway, I learnt that Projects are affordable government housing aka HDB-like things in very dingy neighbourhoods, apparently rife with crime and drugs. Projects are also dirt cheap, someone in the group stays in a 5-room Project apartment for $800!!! Hello, I thought this is New York with its overpriced rent!!
The interns mentioned that I lived in a different world. Probably so. I seemed to exist in a couple of extremely distinct, non-overlapping worlds. I flutter around the edges of these worlds, not really belonging to any of them, yet not being fully excluded from them.
It is like being at the edge of a bubble, and looking into a world that is not mine. Hm.. so what exactly is my world?
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