Subjective

It's approaching the end of my first week in this new city, and I have made it out unscathed. As I previously mentioned, one of the biggest (and unforeseen) problems I've encountered has been the boredom, and because of the lack of much to do I have found myself doing more observing than anything else. I have noticed the main places people walk to on the street adjacent to my apartment, and I've picked up on some of the routines that occur: what time certain places nearby get busy, and what kinds of people live around here. It's interesting to observe so many things occurring simultaneously, and to witness two separate people in the same space, doing the same thing, and having entirely different experiences.

My window looks out into a courtyard, in which all of the windows from the surrounding rooms face. Although the windows themselves hardly differ, the ornamentation and light that slips through them varies in color and intensity just enough to notice a distinct difference from window to window. These small changes show just how different the lives of the people who live behind these windows are, and how their individual experiences vary under the same conditions.

How does my experience differ?

Is it to do with my job (or lack thereof)? Is it the size of my apartment or the direction it faces? Do any of these things really affect my experience within this space at all and, more importantly, how will my experience here change?

While I obviously can't answer these questions, in time I know my experience here will change, and I'm excited to see how and when that will happen. If the experience is subjective, then my outlook will become my experience; simply put, if you want to have a good time, think you're going to have a good time. That may be oversimplified, but I'd like to believe it's true.