It’s the final weekend of September, and it’s time for the One Day Prompt 28.
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Weekly Prompts – The One Day Prompt (28)
One day, I will look back at this season and laugh.
Well…
Maybe after I’ve cooled down. 😂
One day, I will remember the summer when Fuerteventura apparently decided that ordinary temperatures were far too boring.
The nights when 30°C felt almost chilly.
The days when opening the front door was like opening an oven.
The calima that covered everything in dust.
And the evenings when I escaped to my car, turned on the air-conditioning and thought:
I live in a house, yet somehow my car has become the most comfortable room I own.
One day, I will laugh about sitting outside until four in the morning because it was simply too hot to sleep.
Actually, I’m already laughing about some of it.
Because somewhere between exhaustion and mild heat-induced madness, a typo happened.
Arena Negra became Arena 51.
And instead of correcting it and moving on like a sensible person…
I wrote a song about it.
Then another version.
Because apparently this is what happens when you leave a songwriter unsupervised during a calima. 😂👽🛸
And now Arena 51 – The Calima Conspiracy is heading out into the world.
Life is strange like that.
We imagine creativity arriving beautifully — inspiration floating through an open window while we sit peacefully with a notebook.
Sometimes it does.
And sometimes inspiration arrives sweating, covered in Saharan dust, sitting inside a rental car with the air-conditioning blasting.
Perhaps that is what one day means to me today.
It isn’t always some distant dream.
Sometimes one day is the day when something difficult becomes something you survived.
Something frightening becomes something you learned from.
Something ridiculous becomes a story.
And occasionally…
a typo becomes a song.
There are still things in my life that I hope will happen one day.
Dreams I’m carrying.
Questions waiting for answers.
Places I would like to go.
Things I still want to create.
But I’ve learned not to spend so much time waiting for one day that I forget about today.
Because today, even when it is messy, exhausting or ridiculously hot, is still part of my story.
And who knows?
The thing driving you completely bonkers today might just become the story that makes you laugh the hardest one day.
Although preferably…
One day very soon, I’d also quite like it to be below 30°C.
I’m not asking for miracles.
https://ditto.fm/arena-51-the-calima-conspiracy-original-mix
https://ditto.fm/arena-51-the-calima-conspiracy-alien-invasion-remix
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With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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