While Some Despair, Others Walk...

A special shout out to the entire Wednesday Walk community! It has become a habit for me to be part of this event every week and I have expressed how nice it is to share our experiences with other Hivers. Although I like to follow the dynamic, today is the first time I want to talk about a walk that was not on a Wednesday, but was still very special for several reasons.

I have recently visited the Poliedro in Caracas, it was for work reasons mixed with pleasure, as it was the Sunday we attended the concert of Tenor Plácido Domingo, and in fact we had the honour of singing with him, but still the Maestro is a very important opera star in the world, a living legend, so working with him has many security protocols and as assistant artists of such a large group we have to be available for any eventuality and many rehearsals beforehand. That day we were many hours before the concert started, which became a stressful situation for many who don't like to wait, as you can see in my cover photo, but I was very happy and saw the opportunity to do my walk in a place I admire with people I love.

I have to admit, the waiting did have a negative effect on me, it gave me a bad headache because we know how hot it is these days and we were dressed in black, but I knew that a pill and relaxation would help me, I needed to get away from the large and desperate group and I took my girl along with my brother in the coral and his girl. I told them I would take pictures for Hive and they were up for it.

It was a grey sky day, I usually love to take pictures on days like that, but the Poliedro de Caracas is a great architectural work, a giant dome where very important events for Venezuela take place, I feel that I would have liked to see a blue sky to motivate me even more, but I was very positive, and even though I didn't get over the headache completely, the walk and taking so many pictures helped me to relieve it in more than 70%, enough to not have to return home and stay with the desire...

Good chatting with friends is one of the best things that can happen when we do group rides, I don't know if they had the same focus of enjoyment as me, but they helped me feel better in a moment of discomfort, even to the point of separating myself a bit for the passion to keep exploring 🤣 I still always appreciate when I'm left alone with my thoughts (when I'm in positive mode).

In my time alone I got very close to the car park and the public entrance and I could see the long line of people coming to see Maestro Plácido Domingo in action, and I stopped to savour the moment, I thought about the great privilege of being there and being part of something great, not to praise myself, but after so many sadnesses I had the last year and thinking that happiness was over for me, life again has given me several moments and invites me to continue being passionate about my career, about my music. Many times I have been on the side of the people standing in that long queue outside, but that day I was inside, being part of the artists that they came to see, even if nobody knows who I am 😅

On the other hand I was approaching the main dome and then they gave us access to the stage and all the areas where we would work and I saw the desperation of so many technicians looking for perfection in the sound, the screens, the lights, my friends exhausted by the wait and talking like parrots; but I was in peace, with my slight headache, sending messages to @mipiano on discord 😘 ✌️ and thinking about how proud my dad would be if he had had the opportunity to tell him the news that we were going to sing with Plácido Domingo, he was always happy with everything I achieved through music, but there are more and more beautiful things that I would have loved to share with him in life.

It wasn't a Wednesday, and although I didn't have the freedom to do and go where I wanted I found a way to have my healing walk, those that relax me so much week by week and that I have the pleasure to share through the community. This time I owe you better pictures, I think the camera of my phone was as bad as the discomfort in my head hehe. I hope to go back to the Poliedro and take pictures from other angles. At night they illuminate the dome with the tricolour of the Venezuelan flag, but none of those photos looked good because of the lights. I captured everything with my Tecno Pova II, thank you very much for reading me...