Hello Universe…it’s me, Lumi
<p>I was stepping off the uptown 6 subway and jumbled into a crowd of early morning commuters. It was November 14th, 2013. I was 23, and this was the inevitable breaking point in my life that somehow invited a new paradigm in my waking consciousness. Observing the morning computers, they all had the same rushed and exasperated look. Chucking down their Starbucks coffees to hopefully give them their first wind. It was only 8:45 am and I felt an anxious and prickly feeling all around my body.</p>
<p>A heat wave of anxiousness was running along my spine like pins and needles. A feeling that I couldn’t shake off. Every day as I commuted to work I thought to myself there has to be another way to live than this. As I exited the cold yet humid subway station walking along Bleecker Street, my crushing anxiety was building as I approached the beauty salon’s cold metallic lining glass doors. I took a deep breath and entered the empty salon, living in a looping film reel. I was the first one to open and the last one to leave.</p>
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