Jacob bestowed upon me some hopeful news today. He was reading Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live and he found the following quote: She says while being at home recovering from surgery an advice nurse on the phone gave her some of the best advice of her life "Listen," she said "you are supposed to avoid stress and get lots of rest. But if your soul wants to dance, then staying in bed is stressful, and dancing is restful."
I could be dancing! As insecure as I am, I have always found enormous value in shaking my ass off – yes in public, yes atop chairs in front of mirrors when I believed I was the only one around, yes in front of thousands of seated folks squinting to get a good glimpse of James Taylor. I can’t help it! It’s in my blood. My parents were hippies – dancing the weekends away at Grateful Dead concerts, and soon enough I was joining them.
To this day, when life gets complicated, I get on the dance floor. It’s akin to a desire to get drunk, or get outta town. It’s my coping mechanism. I’d like to make a request on The Fez to be on a seven week stint of ‘Shut Up and Dance’ nights. I need them ALL!
Thanks for the reminder, Jacob. Just what the doctor ordered!
5 comments:
so interesting that you post about dancing being freeing while I post that it leaves me feeling vulnerable. are they the same thought then?
You are definitely a performer in many ways - and while I am a narcissist enough to want to be in the center, I am not as good a performer.
Just know this: in order to get your freak on you don't have to act drunk. Just do it! :)
I do love you. Even when your favorite dance partner is a chair.
Ah The Fez. I seriously need to figure out how to get out there again. I had a blast!
yeah, it is interesting that i ALWAYS want to dance, and it takes all the stars to align perfectly for you to.
i'm embarrassed that i'm a performer. it seems so needy of attention.
when i'm dancing, there's definitely a performative quality to it, but my favorite dancing is when you're in the midst of a dancing sea of people. you do your thing, check out other people doing their thing, and just keep your body moving. it's unbelievably cathartic to shake all this shit out!
(Shuffles from side to side) I'm so glad for people like you who keep the attention off of me.
There are times, however rare, that I do "feel the dance." Some inner, instinctual need to gyrate to accompanying loud music. With that being said, however, unless I am in said state, I find dancing to be kind of boring. There I've said it.
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