Dance
Ballroom dancing, specifically. Swing is my favorite kind of dance, but I like to dance many other dances, such as: Lindy Hop, Triple-step, Salsa, Tango, and Waltz, just to name a few.
Like all dancers, I started out not knowing how to do anything. In fact, I didn't even really know that anybody still went ballroom dancing these days. It was still popular in the 50's, but I thought it was completely out of style after that. But I was proven wrong.
When I was about 12, I was in a play that was set in the 1950's, and so, we had to learn how to do some Swing dancing. It was so much fun!
My partner and I learned how to do the "Pretzel." It was fun then, but is still one of my favorite moves. We loved it so much, we tried to figure out how to do it over and over again without letting go of each other's hands, which is very complicated and difficult.
But I didn't do any ballroom dancing for a long time after that...I didn't have any more plays where I had to do it and I didn't know that you could go anywhere to do it just for fun.
But then, about 2 years ago, my friend, Ellie, invited me to go to a ballroom dancing class thing that some of her friends were going to. I decided to go, because I thought it would be fun. Man, was I wrong.
The first time I came, almost nobody asked me to dance and I felt awful about it...I was super shy though, so that could be some of the reason. It was such an unpleasant experience for me; I pretty much vowed I would never come back.
About 3 months later, Ellie invited me to come again...and I thought, "Well, maybe I can have more fun this time." So, off I went.
And, to my surprise, I had a lot more fun than I had imagined I would. There wasn't that many people there, so I got to dance with this one guy (which is now my friend Josh) for almost every song. He was really good and he taught me some new moves that I had never done before.
I was thrilled by the energy and the free-spiritedness of the dance. And that was the moment when I realized that I wanted to do it every week. I had found something that I could get very excited about. I found something that I love to do and do well.
I learned two very important lessons from that.
- I should always be open to new things.
- First impressions are bogus.
If I had never given it a second chance, I wouldn't have ever gotten to know all the amazing people I know now and I might not have started going to the church I'm going to now.
My life was completely changed because of dance. And that's one of the reasons why I love dancing so much. (I will tell you the other reasons in a future blog post)
(originally posted Friday, May 28, 2010)
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