Lonely Highrise200,000 square feet and a 200 car garage all for the low, low price of a $10,000 down payment.  That was the deal for Victor Vangelako’s family, who bought a condo in a Florida high-rise only to find that every single other unit remained unpurchased and empty.   Now they want out because they’ve got no neighbors.

I say sign me up!  In a world impoverished from overcrowding if you can’t find the silver lining in having an entire high-rise to yourself, you’re just not trying.  Bowling down the hallway – no problem!  Skinny dipping in your private pool – no problem!   Cookies in the parking lot – not a soul to disapprove!

Often in life we set our sights on something and then find ourselves disgruntled when it arrives.  When we become too attached to an idea of what the future is going to look like (i.e. lots of other people in my condo high-rise) we fail to see that our courage in going after something may have yielded even more than we imagine.  Goals are guideposts; the point is not to crash into them but pass through them into something new.

If you wake up alone in a high-rise and want to Kill It, celebrate the emptiness, explore the quiet, let this unique one of a kind wrinkle in history be something to set you apart, not something to flee.