Waiting for a Parking Spot

Things are delicious, and more delicious that we can imagine (that is the way we say in Spanish, deliciosas, cosas deliciosas). I don't know why I am writing my thoughts this way right now, but there is not other way I can explain the good time a mundane moment, as my friend Ann would say, has been giving me since Friday February 26th, 2010.

Right now, we keep running around doing a million things at once. There is not a chance to "waste" time, or simply enjoy the moment. Waiting in line at the supermarket feels like an eternity. The subway or the T here in Boston is taking too long to arrive, OMG!!!! Well, for me, one of those days was Friday February 26th. I was waiting for a parking spot here in Boston. Waiting, waiting, waiting, oh my gosh, waiting until a song pops up, Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. Everything I was desperate for, at that time (a parking spot, basically), seems to disappear. My only desire, my only urgency was to move my body to the rhythm of the latest hit of Miss Gaga.

So, right there, I started "dancing" and lip synching the Bad Romance (Romance Malo, Espanol baby, Espanol). The joy was pure, genuine, as my friend Tommy said to me later, and mine. I did forget everything, although I kept my eyes open on a parking spot. There was not rush anymore, and then, I grabbed my "smart" phone (the only thing smart at that moment) BlackBerry, and recorded what I was enjoying: the moment. 3 minutes and 55 seconds of silliness, “singing”, “dancing”, performing to myself.

The best part is still happening, because then, I posted it on Facebook, and some of my friends had fun with me, and I was, again, enjoying the moment as if it had just happened. I laughed at myself. Then, for the first time, I did post something on YouTube. Yes, you are right, my “Lady Gaga and Juan Carlos waiting for a parking spot moment in Boston” went on the most visited video site in the world, YouTube. I don’t know how I am doing there, but I’m having fun. I feel like a kid with a new toy, because I keep watching the video, and I see a man, who is not 20 anymore, but who feels like he is 5, right there. As Lady Gaga says, I am freeing myself, somehow?

I’m trying to find more of those times. I’m trying to create more of those times. Since the 2010 started I made the resolution of not letting one day goes by without doing something that made me feel I have lived my day. I have experienced the day through my veins (that is something we say in Spanish, lo sentimos en las venas). My heart and my brain felt it, therefore I lived the day. Honestly, I started pretty good, but I’m not sure what happened, but it got lost for a few days. Anyway, it is back. The feeling of having fun, being a child, living the day is back, and because of moment of waiting for a parking spot, Lady Gaga, and a BlackBerry, I can say I am on track again of doing something everyday even if it is small, but something that makes me feel GREAT inside.

It is much easier that we all can think. I think.