A happy ending

Every evening I end my run with some stretches before I come back inside. The park / courtyard where I do my stretching is just outside my building. It is always a happy ending to my run / jog. As I come running up to the courtyard I hear the sounds of children playing and laughing and adults chatting. All this, at 11pm at night, in the outdoors. It is a good feeling. Life is out there. In some parts of the world at 11pm there is dead silence and nothing goes on. People are fast asleep.

This is the park/courtyard. Palm trees grow around the sandpit (in the daylight).

There are adults sitting about in groups laughing, chatting and gossiping about neighbours I guess. Groups of  boys wearing Barcelona Football Club shirts kick a ball from one to another. Teenagers sit on benches with their cell phones and shriek every time they receive a text! Little kids play in the sandpit or on the jungle gyms. A little girl nearby, playing on a rocking horse said something to me in Spanish and kept talking to me. Then came the part when she was expecting an answer from me. I just blurted out a "ci" which means yes - to try to give her some response. Obviously the question she has asked me was not a Yes/No one as she repeated the question to me. I did not know what to say or how to respond so I smiled and said "ci". She kept talking to me, as I was leaning against a Palm tree doing some calf stretches. I was taken back by the innocence of this little girl. She just kept talking to me even though she had no clue I didn't have the faintest idea what she was saying. Truly priceless.

Some of the buildings in my area.