It was exactly midnight so, as Mercedes told me to do, I smashed the coconut in the middle of the West Side Highway. Things are going to get better, I thought, when I saw the coconut all over the highway. It was March, 2002. My second baby was born the night before. On 9/11 I lived two blocks from the World Trade Center. During the Financial Crisis I lived on Wall Street. I'm a bit tired of always living in "Ground Zero". For 15 years, I thought my self-worth was my net-worth. And everyone else had an agenda for me. I had been living my life upside down. I listened to other people's agendas for me. I never asked: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" and "Why now?" because for a long time I couldn't figure out the answers. . . #writing #disaster #lifestyle …see more