I Feel Good

Tonight I had drinks after work with some friends who are much younger than I, and one of them just broke up with his live-in girlfriend of 5 years. His friends were giving him shit about hooking up with a crazy girl this past weekend; I told him not to listen to them. As far as I'm concerned, you are allowed a free-for-all period after a tough break-up in which you do pretty much whatever the hell you want to do. My one rule, and I told him this too, is that you don't lie to people. Other than that, it's basically all good.

The general theme of the evening centered around laughing about random hook-ups, and on the bike ride home the song that came to me was this one:

Whoa-oa-oa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would, now
So good, so good, I got you

And I think it came to me for a couple of reasons. For one, I do feel good, finally, and I knew that I would, I just wasn't sure when it would happen. But I felt on tonight, and back out there, and while the "I got you" line doesn't apply to me right now, I'm ok with that. I am in a place where I can both recall a dreamy lover (my coworker and I were discussing the importance of loving your man's smell) and be pregnant with the possibility of another, and that's a pretty damn good place to be:

Whoa! I feel nice, like sugar and spice
I feel nice, like sugar and spice
So nice, so nice, I got you

The other reason I think this song came to me on a night when I was encouraging hook-ups with people who aren't really prospects in the most complete sense of the word is that I had just such an experience with someone who loved this song. The year was 1994, I was traveling around Australia with a couple of friends, and we ended up meeting a group of guys whom we traveled with for a while. We all hooked up with one of the guys, and the guy I hooked up with was, hands down, the biggest asshole of the group. Not only was this guy a dick, but he was pretty lacking in personality altogether, with two notable exceptions: he was super satisfying to mess around with, and he became a different person when we were in a club and this song came on:

Whoa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would
So good, so good, I got you
So good, so good, I got you
So good, so good, I got you
HEY!!

And at the time, that was enough. But mark my words: the next time I'm singing "I've got you" for real, he's going to be the total package...