It happens to all of us. At some point in life, we feel like we are going over "the Niagara on a bicycle", like we are going down the wrong way on a one-way street, or vice versa, we feel like what we have at hand is not enough to deal with our current challenges, even the little ones, like our clothes don’t fit us...
Then the dominos start to fall, one after another, more difficulties arise, there is always more bad news, like Juan Luis Guerra says: "...don’t tell me the doctors left, don’t tell me there’s no anesthetic, don’t tell me they drank all the alcohol and the thread was sewn onto a tablecloth...". Don’t tell me, but they tell me.
The musical heresy for today is meant to find the positive effect that we need in Juan Luis’ cheerful notes, when the only thing we have is a bicycle and we are going over the Niagara Falls, and finally, the wisest part of the song, “take it easy Bobby, take it easy”. My heresy is that no matter how great the challenge and how absurd the situation we are in, we have to keep in mind the words of the “nurse with Ben-Gay hands” and find peace in our soul, simply “knowing” that everything is going to be all right. Because it is all right. At the end of the day, today is perfect and so will be tomorrow.
When you least expect it, we will have the Niagara behind us, perhaps the bicycle will be there too, and we will be fully empowered by the experience, with the tools for the next Niagara that gets in our way!
Translation Note: This heresy takes the lyrics of the song “El Niagara en Bicicleta” and interprets them into life. To fully understand it you should listen to the song and translate the lyrics.
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