Sometimes I get weird moments that even I don't understand. I was buying lunch at a Japanese take-out at exactly 12 in the afternoon. The place is small and the kitchen and the counter are combined. Only six people can fit in front of the register and there isn't exactly an entrance and exit door.
I was silently waiting for my turn when I noticed that Mexican music was playing at the background. I was smiling a little bit and thinking how ironic that situation was. I observed the staff to see how this could be, because it was unlikely for the Japanese/Chinese (it's hard to tell what they are these days because sometimes, even Koreans run a Japanese restaurant, another one of the ironies) couple to listen to that kind of music. So I looked around and found out that two of the kitchen boys were Hispanic, and that explained everything.
Just then, the cold wind was blowing and the mixture of these things suddenly reminded me of some sort of a childhood memory although mine didn't involve a Japanese take-out and Mexican music at all. But at that moment, the sound of the accordion and the weather made me picture children running around and playing under the shade of the tree and the security that they have because everything in their world seemed perfect—no divorced parents and a house of their own, it's not really something but it was a home. And I kept thinking why do I have this feeling? Why am I reminiscing when it never happened to me but it felt like it did?
Then I remembered what my mom shared with me a few days ago. That she just got this feeling that there's something that happened to her past but she doesn't really know what it is, although she never told me if it made her happy or sad, and she seemed confused, but that's the exact feeling that I was having this afternoon.
I'm not really sure what this means or if I'm making any sense at all, but I definitely loved that moment because it gave me that peaceful and happy feeling and that somehow, something is telling me that there is something to look forward to.
Spell casted @ 2:36 PM