Hotels

I will never hate to travel. I shouldn't say that, I do hate the airport experience. I've spent the first twenty years of my life flying for free, for which I'm grateful. People don't realize the downside though-the countless hours, days sometimes, spent wandering from gate to gate waiting for a flight. Granted, it's all worth flying for free and I love the experience of flying-it's just the waiting that has developed my bitterness towards air travel. I love hotels though. I walk by The W-a trendy Chicago hotel, almost everyday. There are hotels all around me and they're fascinating. The fact that they're this living place, this place that's always awake. There's always someone awake that can help you get a cab, help you with your baggage, or tell you a place to eat that's open 24/7. There's something comforting about that. Plus it's not even like one guy at the desk is up to check people in. At any big hotel you've got a couple bar tenders, some cocktail waitresses, a concierge, doormen, bell boys, around late into the night. It's a city within a city. Lost in Translation made me want to be in that hotel, be in that hotel bar. Granted, the guy falls in love in the movie which makes the hotel stay all that more glamorous but still. I think the source of why hotels are comforting to me is the fact that it's a place where it's okay that you're alone. In fact it's completely accepted that you are alone-you're traveling-you don't know anyone in LA, Hong Kong, London, New York, wherever you are. See, I think for me being perceived as being lonely or having no one to go out with on a particular night is much worse than actually being lonely or not going out. In recent years I've grown comfortable in my own skin. I don't mind being alone any more. It makes me crazy though to think of being thought of as lonely. That's completely shallow, I understand but that's just the way it is. I'm good to go, by myself, or with whoever happens to come into my life. I'm not lonely, and I certainly don't mind being alone anymore. So, to any high powered firm that may be reading this and need some guy to travel constantly and live out of hotels for a few years-I'm you're man. That is unless I'm married or something, it probably won't be as cool or nearly as glamorous as it is in Lost In Translation. And a little tough on a marriage.
Lyric
"Why everything that's supposed to be bad make me feel so good,
Everything they told me not to was exactly what I would,
Man, I tried to stop, man, I tried the best I could
What's your addiction?"
-Kanye West