A few weeks ago I was been flattered by a Swedish girl who kept saying I was her queen, just because we happen to have the same name... the queen and I! And then she kept inviting me to champagne until the bubbling spirit made me walk an inch above the grown! But her flattering didn't ended there, nah, nah... she then asked my age, I responded: "36". She opened her eyes in disbelief, and I even think she got sober all of a sudden... "I thought your were 28... EXCLAMATION POINT"
That same night we attended the birthday of Mau's best friend, Fer. And after lots of mojitos, vodka shots, and sweating to '80s music... Mau asks me the same question again..."how old are you?" ... Dunno what is it here in Europe, but I think they have this fucking obsession with age, as if! But returning to Mau's impertinent question... my answer was the same... mostly cause there cannot be another answer, right. And he got surprised too, but the alcohol didn't let him open his already oblique... and now, drunken eyes... "I thought you were 32"...
OK, OK... I admit it! pull an all-nighter drinking like a fish... not water though, dance like a dervish, and some other few things, ;) and you will definitely look older by the minute.... in my case it took about a couple of hours to go from 28 to 32... not too shabby!
But that was then, a few, very few weeks ago... and now is now! Today it is a totally different story!! I do apparently look 50, according to 2 guys from the Czech Republic. It seems that I must have aged over a decade between the then and the now! Can you imagine how surprised I was??? I can't even start to imagine it myself! But it did happen... Although, there is some relief hidden behind curtains... they both read my blog! lol And took special interest in my obsession with lightning, and its many uses in our American adages... My favorite has always been "lightning could strike". And another, made famous by "Sleepless in Seattle" and I pretty much guess by others too, is "for a woman over 40 it is easier to get hit by lightning than to find a husband". Then, there is my friend Sally, who at some point last year complained to me about how hard it was for her to find a suitable partner... specially having recently turned 50. So, I kind of mixed the three, cause for some reason all of them came together and at the same time to my head, and tried to play with words and concepts, but from my own point of view... The result was exactly the one intended... create controversy, always! What wasn't intended was to make it seem it was really me! But, I did wrote it in first person: confusing to say the least!!!!
Bottom line, I don't know what am I anymore, right now the confused one it's me! I don't know who to believe anymore: the drunken Swedish girl, a not so drunken Mau, my 2 guys from Prague, their friend from Quito, who by the way said she though I looked somewhere in the middle, between the Czech Rep. and my blog, or what is printed in my passport... hmmm, tough one, tough one!
OK, OK... I admit it! pull an all-nighter drinking like a fish... not water though, dance like a dervish, and some other few things, ;) and you will definitely look older by the minute.... in my case it took about a couple of hours to go from 28 to 32... not too shabby!
But that was then, a few, very few weeks ago... and now is now! Today it is a totally different story!! I do apparently look 50, according to 2 guys from the Czech Republic. It seems that I must have aged over a decade between the then and the now! Can you imagine how surprised I was??? I can't even start to imagine it myself! But it did happen... Although, there is some relief hidden behind curtains... they both read my blog! lol And took special interest in my obsession with lightning, and its many uses in our American adages... My favorite has always been "lightning could strike". And another, made famous by "Sleepless in Seattle" and I pretty much guess by others too, is "for a woman over 40 it is easier to get hit by lightning than to find a husband". Then, there is my friend Sally, who at some point last year complained to me about how hard it was for her to find a suitable partner... specially having recently turned 50. So, I kind of mixed the three, cause for some reason all of them came together and at the same time to my head, and tried to play with words and concepts, but from my own point of view... The result was exactly the one intended... create controversy, always! What wasn't intended was to make it seem it was really me! But, I did wrote it in first person: confusing to say the least!!!!
Bottom line, I don't know what am I anymore, right now the confused one it's me! I don't know who to believe anymore: the drunken Swedish girl, a not so drunken Mau, my 2 guys from Prague, their friend from Quito, who by the way said she though I looked somewhere in the middle, between the Czech Rep. and my blog, or what is printed in my passport... hmmm, tough one, tough one!
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