Ever had the feeling that your life...

...might just well be way different than the one you expected to live?

Just think about it: what did you want to be when you were a kid? What did you want to be 10 years ago? How was it 5 years ago, who did you want to be? Any many of the dreams you had when you had 15 actually came true? Life goes on and turns out to be just different - sometimes radically different - that it actually is.

I must say I have been lucky. Five years ago I was working for an engineering company, writing basketball articles just for fun, sometimes because I was in Asia and I didn't have anything better to do. Working 14 hours a day and visiting three Taiwanese basements was not the kind of work I wanted, being 10,000 Km away from home, no matter how much money I was making. Now I do exactly what I want, what I think I am best qualified for, and the kind of work I like the most. So I cannot complain.

The biggest regret I have in life, just sometimes, is that I try to please everyone. That shows best with my trips to Sevilla. I like to come here, but I also love to stay in Barcelona with Belen. I know my parents want me here and Belen wants me there, it is logical. And I try to keep everyone happy - family, friends, wife, co-workers, everyone. Sometime I have to lie - say I have a meeting in Barcelona, or that I made a mistake while writing my flights list - in order to keep everyone happy. I am trying not to do it anymore, but sometimes I am kind of forced to do so.

This should be an exciting summer for me. As every year, I will be on the beach for 15 days and will go to the world-famous FIB Benicassim music festival.

I love it. It is a great festival, very well-organized, and it is even better since I met my good friend Luis from Valencia. I sleep at his place after a whole night out watching gigs from 6pm to 6am, Thursday to Sunday (this year 19-22 July). We wake up at 1pm, have a shower, eat the biggest and best paella we have with a good wine, get into the car and go back to the festival. It is the best plan in the world, watching a good gig with the moon on your back with thousands of other souls and a big beer on your hand, surrounded by friends and knowing they are liking it as much as you do. The FIB bill so far is disappointing - Arctic Monkeys, Muse and Bright Eyes are the only bands I am interested about, and they confirmed like 20 already. Still, it is sometimes more about being there and discovering new bands, why not?

Still, it is a long way to go now. The basketball season is on its best part but I cannot stop myself from thinking that life is not always what you make it, and keeping everyone happy is very, very difficult sometimes, and that it is clear that my happiness depends on others. I am only happy if only all the people I care about are happy. And that happens to be the toughest task in the world - only sometimes.  

I will keep on trying to be a good man. It is the only way I managed to be happy in my entire life. Being a laid-back guy who tries to make his people happy. People around the world have their own way to find happiness - and this is what worked better for me.

So you thought this was a basketball blog... It is, sometimes. I should try to put together some Top 5 lists or just any stuff I find interesting to tell. After all, it is my blog, innit?

I ain't going out, and it is Saturday night. Hope you did, whoever you are. We all gotta enjoy after all.

Javi