To be or not to be

I went with my father to this small restaurant a little bit off the beaten path in San Salvador. I love to go there because there is always "old" live music on saturdays, and that is my favorite type of music when I feel like "chilling out".

Its 2 guys in their 60s with guitars and mellow voices, playing songs written between the 30s and the 80s by all those romantic latin composers that would live for their crowds in dodgy bars in the streets of Mexico, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Caracas, etc. during the golden years of this cities.

But still now, those songs represents the mere essence of romanticism in Latin America.

I was there listening... and my mind got into a million thoughts...

Human relationships are complex.
I saw myself there, dancing like that couple, after what... 25, 40 years of marriage, still deeply in love with the man I chose.
And in some part of my brain, that thought didn't make too much "click" in today's world.

It seems neither men, nor women are looking that far away in time. Everything is short term, and long term is only used in excel spreadsheets and it normally doesn't involve more than 5 years.

You have desperate romantics, falling in love with love and with every other person that crosses in the middle.
You have sceptics filling their life with work, assuming that will fill their need for love or company and some one-night-stand their need for physical closeness.
There is always that weird couple that met when they were 18, now they are married, have 2 children (because more is collective suicide) and live in the suburbs and work in a family owned shop.
And every day, you hear people telling you as if it was a great secret, after 4 beers and 2 shots of tequila... "I feel lonely" (and then they try to get in your pants)

What will happen?
I am not quite sure... but it sure would be interesting to look at myself 30 years from now, and see if I will be dancing to those songs that after a 100 years, still put mellow feelings in their listener's hearts.