Comments on: Passion, trying too hard, and the City of Dreams http://icomefromforeign.com/2008/04/passion-trying-too-hard-and-the-city-of-dreams Trinidad. Miami. LA. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:58:27 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Weso http://icomefromforeign.com/2008/04/passion-trying-too-hard-and-the-city-of-dreams/comment-page-1#comment-9 Weso Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:34:36 +0000 http://icomefromforeign.com/?p=15#comment-9 If Miami stifled goals and ambitions, then Trinidad strangles it, fills its pockets with shillings and throws it to the bottom of a river. They pump complacency into the air and it's an additive in all the good rums. Stay there for more than a week - even on vacation - and you'll feel it. After secondary school I worked in a bank surrounded by people who worked with my parents, when they worked in the bank. They never left, and were quite fine with that. Something about that place, more so than Miami, that makes you never want to do anything. And yet, here we are. We broke free anyway. Live it up, it's a testament to our bloody-minded stubbornness. If Miami stifled goals and ambitions, then Trinidad strangles it, fills its pockets with shillings and throws it to the bottom of a river. They pump complacency into the air and it’s an additive in all the good rums. Stay there for more than a week – even on vacation – and you’ll feel it. After secondary school I worked in a bank surrounded by people who worked with my parents, when they worked in the bank. They never left, and were quite fine with that. Something about that place, more so than Miami, that makes you never want to do anything.

And yet, here we are.

We broke free anyway. Live it up, it’s a testament to our bloody-minded stubbornness.

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