Out with the Old...and in with the NEW!!!!

I have been doing a lot of self reflection lately. Thinking about my "old" life upstate and my "new" life here. Living here I can already see changes in myself that are different from the "old" me. Living in New York you begin to become a "bitchier" person. Or at least I am. Upstate I would never do some of the things I do now i.e. walking past and rolling my eyes at slow walkers, ignore someone who is saying hi to me, and other new yorker tendencies. Not only are these tendencies though... they are the armour that anyone who lives in a big city must wear. You can't go around walking like you don't know where your going then instantly become a target. You also can't go around responding to every comment made at you. By responding you are letting them in and once that happens it's really hard to get them out.... so to speak.