"Dancing in the park"

                    🎶“Lady hear me tonight,  cuz my feelings is just so right. 🎶

                    🎶 As we danced, by the moonlight, can’t you see you’re my delight”🎶


This song intertwined perfectly with the amazing vibe, the chilli breeze, and the moonlight; everything was beautiful about Auckland last night.

So, I had been waiting to  witness the amazing gig “Dancing in the Park”, which took place in the Albert park last evening. Being  a newbie from a different country, here in Auckland, was the most amazing experience ever. 
So, the event started at around 3 PM, but then again the forgetful person that I am, I lost my room access card. Me and Lily, my Chinese flatmate, had been to the Chinese supermarket earlier to buy vegetables and other kitchen items. I come back and I realised that I do not have the card on the phone cover. Somehow I managed to get a temp card from the security and then there was, my room waiting for me to come back so, that I could dress up and head to Albert park. 
And the kind person that I am, well, I am proud of that so.. high five! So, I gave the security a grapefruit, as I didn’t have anything else to show my gratitude with.
Anyways, I come back to my room and I still cannot find the card. I don’t know, why I did that, but I actually had to pull out the whole wardrobe to find the card.
Trust me, biggest mistake ever! I pulled out everything, only to find that the card is lying right next to me, slightly under the bed.
The frustrated me, folded and kept the clothes back in the cupboard and then, got all sparkly and wore my  all time favourite floral Adidas jacket, my high-waisted jeans shorts, and my pink Timberland boots! I loved the look and I kinda thought, that was the perfect outfit for a gig like that. 
So, Albert park is like, five minutes walk from my place and I headed towards the park looking all decked up for the evening. The moment I reached the top, where the event was going on, I suddenly felt a rush, a rush 🌬of freshly smoked doobies. I thought to my myself, in a way, it's really good because, I was like, what if, today is my chance to finally get to taste the flavour of New Zealand’s so-called organic marijuana. ☘ That's the wild side of doing all the talks, so you don't wanna throw more attention on that.

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So, there were people of all generation playing with vibrant hula hoops. There were people sketching different views of the parks. Some were fascinated in the tantric vibes of yoga and quiet contrast to that, there were others shaking it up to the zestful Zumba songs.  And on the other hand, there were some, who were rolling joints and preparing for the evening. Everything was just amazing to look at and I wondered how peaceful it would  have been for them to sit at the park, puff it up and feel the whole world moving at a slow and peaceful pace. Well, the hypnotic trances that they must be going through were something I really envied. 
Anyways, I went alone as there was no one to accompany me, but I enjoyed a lot, just by being a spectator.  Do you see, how I get distracted every time I talk about the stuff.  The hypnotherapy is working on me through just mere thoughts of it, I guess…🤗
Well, coming back to my story, there were people practising for the big night, as they had told us earlier that, there will be LED, Fire show and Glow Zone after the sunset.  

There were people, dogs, and insects, that were trying to climb up on my legs. I was supposed to bring at least a cloth to sit on; saw how I called myself ‘forgetful’ in the beginning?  The insects were quiet understanding and did no harm to any parts of my body. That’s funny, because, I can imagine my mum yelling at me for sitting on the grass with shorts on. She would have been like, “Get up, you lil' twit, there are insects and they can fuck u up.” Well, she wouldn't use “fuck” but it would mean the same.
I sat there, leaning on a tree, and watched people endlessly. 🌳

Luckily towards the evening, a friend joined me and it was so relaxing to finally have someone to talk to in the park except for the kid, who kept coming up to me for free hugs. The kid was really sweet, but now if I think about it, I don’t really think that that was a kid. I don’t know, Whoever he was, I gave him a lot of hugs and finally when he came again, I wanted to tell him, It was no more free and that, I would  actually start charging him. I ended up hugging him, see, that’s what I hate in me; Its really hard for me to come about with the word “NO”. 💁🏻

Anyways, my friend had come along with a friend and we enjoyed a lot. We  made fun of a lot of people and also there was this old man, who kept throwing the fire rings as us, not literally, though.  I am just fussing about it now, but the ambience was different yesterday, it was so chilled out and relaxing. I wonder the "rush", I mentioned in the beginning of my story, was actually starting to bring out the peaceful side of me too. Whatever side it brought out, it was amazing. We danced a lot and we did “Thabal Chongba” (Manipur’s much-celebrated dance, particularly on a full moon night) and we enjoyed to our hearts content. 👫We somehow got a joint, from somewhere and puffed our souls out and danced under the moonlight to the tunes of Modjo and a lot of  other amazing argentine music with drum beats.

It was one of the best nights, I have ever had in Auckland. We headed towards the road but then, needed to relax for some more time. I lied on my back and could feel the tingling of the grass on my neck and the back of my legs, overlooking the sky tower. The heat vibe from all the dancing and laughing actually blended so perfectly with the chilly April breeze..
                                                                                                                               
                                                                          Best night ever…. 💛