Rainy day

    We were sitting on a branch of a tree. Harry was facing me, and I was facing him, but I was lower, kind of sliding back. My position seemed quite awkward to him. We were drinking mate, and he said ¨You are comfortable in positions I wouldn´t¨ There was a pause, and I just thought, how that happens to me in life a lot. I find myself in positions where I feel extremely comfortable, and most people don´t. Note that in Spanish the word ¨position¨ can be used, not only in the fiscal sense, but also us in a situational way. 

   And swimming trough what it´s considered uncomfortable by many people can be a whole adventure. I don´t perceive this uncomfortableness so I simply dive. Feeling how deep I am getting, and how nice it is to have that water run against your body, in the opposite direction, but letting you go deeper, and deeper, like saying ¨yes, go through me¨.  People question this lot. Mostly thinking you are putting up a character, to seduce, to look different. But to me, it is the way I live. In Ecology we study all these different species, and how each one uses one part of the pool of resources, or the different sites in an area. Some species are very generalist, finding them everywhere, but not where conditions are ¨stressing¨ (salinity, low oxygen, little nutrients), and there are some other species you only find them there, where conditions are stressing, because they can tolerate that. But when conditions are favorable, they can´t compete with the others. I like to think I am one of those.

   I was in school today, I went by bike. It takes me around 40 min to get there. In the middle of the class, it began to rain; we were all alert by it. Many of my classmates go by bike too. Those who don´t, said ¨you deserve it for playing to be hippie¨ One said ¨I do it because I am poor, not hippie¨ and I just thought, ¨I do it because I love bicycling¨, but I remained silent.  As we walked out, one of my friends offered me a poncho, lovely. One more time: the kindness of people shows up when you need it the most. My smile was bigger than anything, as if I had just got a new Mercedes Benz (I wouldn´t  smile at that actually).  And another friend asked me which way I was taking. He said he had a better one than the one I usually take. So I followed him. It was like a biking adventure in any forest. We went by places in school I had never seen before. And we talked, we shared our thoughts on many things, and we got to know each other. Then we said goodbye and I continued on my own. Smiling to people, singing, feeling happy with the rain. Enjoying the rain, so, so much. Being comfortable in that situation.  

   In the last traffic light I stopped, and what did I see? The raindrops hitting the water in the street. What did I see? Bubbles.

   The night before leaving Harry said ¨I just think you have the ability to find every situation special, or crazy¨ Maybe so, I don´t know, it just seems crazy, funny, and I fucking love it.