The life of a bug
What if you awoke tomorrow to find you were a cockroach
In the old-school novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915), the main character, Gregor, does just that.
It's not so much that he bizarrely transforms from salesman to giant bug in the first paragraph of the book, but upon finding himself in such a rare state, he offers a most fascinating response.
Neither did he recoil at his newly-formed image or madly recount the evening prior to determine what happened. Nor does he set out to frantically or otherwise find a cure for his condition.
Instead he laments, how will I keep my job, smattered with general disdain for the rainy morning outside his window.
Our latest issue is filled with stories of quantum change across our country. Continuing to surface like symptoms on an episode of House are incongruities within our economy, as magnified through the lens of our country's most significant sector, multifamily. There's the on-going screech of lending as it compresses development, ownership and operations, the loss of jobs that continues to reduce rents and elevate vacancies, and a selective ear for consensus unless it fits a particular purpose. These are the real stories of folks who barely made it through the rapidly
