Since I was young, I loved planning everything. Be it weekends, holidays, school breaks, week nights, time spent with friends, you name it, I will create an agenda for it!
Being an avid planner is not always great though, especially when the plans don’t work out for reasons outside of my control. Like when friends have familial or personal commitments and sudden plans that make it impossible for them to meet up.
Planning things way in advance also takes out part of the fun that comes with spontaneity and going with the flow. Sometimes, we need to let things go and just live the moment with whatever it has to offer.
I found out about the Cultural Night Market a week or two ahead of its planned dates. And immediately informed my friend who was a fan of the monthly flea markets that are held at the same park where that event was taking place for the first time. Naturally, I thought that she would be the best companion for that event. Well, I was wrong. First, she has a lot of responsibilities and happened to suffer from an eye sight problem that week which was giving her headaches. She suggested to go early and check out the market and give me her feedback. I thought it was a good idea since I don’t drive and would be taking a cab for a kind of long distance to the park. An hour later, she texts me to say that it was not worth it and that there isn’t much to see.
At first, I decided to change my plans to having lunch with anyone of my friends who would be free to join me for a late afternoon lunch. Since my market companion had other things to take care of. But when no one was available to join me, I decided to have a quick healthy salad and then head to the night market anyway, to have a look for myself and have something to write about on my not-so-regularly-updated blog.
As I walk to a new salad joint in the other side of my area, I take note of people sitting for meals together, other walking alone, or walking their dogs, and I can’t help but feel the loneliness of Dubai make its way into my soul for a number of times that I can no longer keep track of. That ugly emotion reached its peak as I was sitting in the salad joint high chair, facing the lake surrounded by towers…it was around sunset and the dawn of the darkness didn’t help in lifting up my mood. It only made it worse. Then, a song that held a sentimental memory to me was playing….that’s when the tears started rolling down my eyes, and it was just my tired soul, the wilted nicoise salad bowl and that motionless, irritatingly lifeless, colorless lake.
Ironically enough, my lonely Dubai moment was interrupted by an IM from an old school friend who lives in another city asking: “are you happy in UAE?”
As simple as her question was, the answer was too complicated to be briefed in a yes or no answer, or even in a text message.
An hour or so later, I was laughing my heart out with a new friend from my building who managed to join me at my park night! We were enjoying the remarkably great live music, the stale pizza, and the not so cool, yet fresh air.
In the end, my day did unfold as planned….well, maybe not exactly the way I had envisioned it. But what matters is that I had an amazing time with my friend, and my tears of sorrow and pain were later replaced by endless laughs of pure joy that followed me to bed that night every time I remembered my friend’s witty and sarcastic jokes!
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