It was suddenly January all over again and there we were one more year in the Sunset Bar: my dad, Jane Black, and I. My mom was replaced by the company of the British drunk woman who started rambling about her journeys, an annoying custom of her was never shutting up; the embodiment of impertinence, suspiciously friendly and a wild party animal, I liked her but I also detested the way she didn’t stop letting senseless words out of a offensive mouth and spoke about only her. And how she viewed everything with disdain unique to some Anglo-Saxons who feel wiser just because they are able to afford a ticket plane. She, my dad, the noisy Australians, the bartender, and my internal war.
My mom was sitting there a year ago, now some woman we just met became our companion. My greatest desire was to unplug from all of that and become that bird, unaware and maybe not happy but untouched from the mess of being human and flying through the Acapulco skies for a living, like a silentvigilante observing people like me and sometimes others with a softer soul.
The kids in the sand, the drunks in the bay, the richer ones hopped on their yachts. Then, Jane pranced around on the rocky pavement, dipsy. Only the Bird knows who.
I wanted to be as drunk as Jane so maybe I could numb out the seasonal feeling for a swift instant and enjoy the sunset that was unrolling before my eyes. Those, that felt blindfolded by noise. I wish I hadn’t ruined my sunsets, I wish I could go back in time and reset everything and enjoy those moments. Everyone, without factual words told me to enjoy sunsets.
At that moment I felt crippled, just like every Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the strange fog came down to me and held me. I felt at home but cold and shivering.