you can't feel motion at constant velocity

restlessness as a rebellion against transience.

Like Serena van der Woodsen, “I have to go.” Last year, I spent an inordinate amount of time clearing the city on foot from one end to the other in hopes of brushing shoulders with an older version of myself that had found a happy life here. That could see herself rooted to a single place. A woman of 20 in her first tailored suit. Of 25, hand-in-hand wi…