He spent the next hour sitting on a folding stool, watching her bow fly across the strings. He turned pages of Bach and Gershwin, feeling the vibration of the music in his own chest. When the sun dipped below the horizon, the crowd cheered, and the cellist laughed, giving him a high-five that felt like an electric shock.
Elias looked at the subway entrance—the path to his quiet, predictable apartment. Then he looked at the park, where the evening light was turning the trees to gold. "Affirmative." affirmative
By 6:00 PM, the exhaustion of being "open" was setting in. He was walking toward the subway when a young woman with a cello case and a frantic expression stopped him. He spent the next hour sitting on a
At 11:00 AM, a coworker asked if he wanted to lead the afternoon brainstorm for the new marketing campaign—a task Elias usually dodged by pretending to be intensely interested in his stapler. Elias looked at the subway entrance—the path to
Should the story focus more on or his personal life ?
Should there be a he has to face with his new attitude?