Embracing my inner fool.

"The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane."

Amanda Seales

Hello there, full-time weekenders!

I had a good friend during my High School years that always had the same answer for the questions related to the things we were going to do during the day. The answer? Ridicule. Yes, just like that. Going back to those years, I remember getting into situations that put me into that sort of spotlight. You know being silly and comic. And they have molded my into the silly goofball I am to day.

Needless to say. I have no regrets.

Let's star by the time people used to play pulling each others joggers down during physical education. I was once the subject of such a thing. But I have always had thick legs. That day I was wearing a new pair of boxers briefs. And did some posing until I pulled my joggers back on and that was the end of it. If course, I wanted the concrete under my shoes to open as a maw and engulf me. However, the reaction at the time got me a kind of immunity to the whole prank deal. No one else tried to pull down my joggers during physical education anymore.

Back when I was on the last years of High School, I had to dance as part of a presentation on Zulia State. I'm not a good dancer. Have never been. But that's just about a lack of practice. Anyways, I had to get on stage and do my thing while smiling and moving. I felt ridiculous the whole time. It was a whole song and it was horrible. Good thing we aced that presentation because the rest of the things we had to do were easy. I mean I have always aced presentations. But dancing is not one of talents.

The best ridicule story I have is about the day I asked a girl to be my girlfriend. We had been flirting for way too long and we had dated many times. The day I did it, we went for ice cream and after finishing I went for it. She pulled my hands away from hers and said "no, thank you" with a smile on her face. During that time, I wasn't the intense piece little brat I used to be during High School. I used to have a hard time coping with rejection. Anyways, I remember standing up and going away. I didn't have anything else to do there. Then, as I was walking towards the bus stop, I heard some steps behind me. Someone grabbed me by the arm. It was her. She was laughing. Then, she added it was a joke and that she did wanted to be my girlfriend.

It was an interesting relationship. But since she did that to start the whole thing, I took a lot of things that happened there with the same spirit of jokes.

It didn't end well. But I gotta tell I had a hell of time being silly and in love. So, it had a silver lining.

In my day to day, there are always chances to be silly or get myself into a ridicule spotlight. And I have to say, I never miss the chance to do it. I don't know. I'm already a melancholic person, so I take every chance to be silly with a cube of sugar to have a better day.