Would You Like To Dance?

I would say another hard thing about life is knowing when to live and when to just be still. There is an in-between stage and we will get into that a little later in another post. Life is a process of stages that sometimes fall in alignment with what we want. Sometimes we fall out of alignment of what we want. How do we get in alignment with our passion? What happens that causes us to fall out of alignment?

I like to dance is an understatement coming from me. I absolutely love to dance. It is one of my passion in life. When I was asked as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a Janet Jackson dancer. Everyone would make fun of me because they said by the time I grew up Janet would be dancing in a Walker. Well, clearly dance has no age and she is still contributing to my dancing dreams. I want to talk about dance in reference to the title of this blog entry. Jump rope is suitable also but I will continue with the dance reference.

Everyone can move to a certain degree it just depends who you are around and they may have better moves than you, but who's watching? Plenty are thought to be

but are they really? Have you ever been asked to do something and you turned it down because you really weren't sure how you would succeed at it? You only looked at how you would fail at it? You are asked to dance and the person, look good, smell good, dance good but you said no. They don’t give up. They keep coming back. I call that person's life. To be more specific, the passions in our lives, because I have many passions.

Life is asking you to participate. It( life) is not concerned about all the things that could go wrong but for some reason, you are playing double dutch with the idea of participating.

Why?

What is holding your back to the wall at the dance? When I was younger, at a school dance I would stand against the wall because I feared rejection. At one dance I stood on the wall the whole time. Everyone was having a good time. A boy asked me to dance and I kept saying no, in a nice way. He went on to join everyone else. I thought wow they are having fun. I didn’t think about myself. I was just enjoying them. After the dance, the young man came back and asked me to dance outside of the dance. The music could still be heard from where we were standing. I said yes, don’t know why but we danced outside of the dance. The chaperone said." It is too late to dance now, you should have done that inside". I remember that vividly because I wished I would have participated earlier.

BUT it's not too late for you. You still have the chance as long as the breath is in your body to enjoy the dance. Get out there and involve yourself with something amazing! You've said no long enough and I get it! Whatever your reason was, is, or will be. Turn that reason into a reason why you should! How do you get in alignment was what I asked in the beginning. It is by practicing. Yes, practice! Practice getting into the things that you want to do. The good thing is because whatever it is YOUR passion, you have what you need, but you may have fallen out of the dance, someone stepped on your foot, been laughed at, no one asked you to dance, so you need to practice to get the jitters out.

I admire my Aunt, at 80 years old she is still in the mix. When a car is leaving she is in it. If there is no car then she is walking to the bus stop. If there is something that's attracting you to fully explore the life you have said no to then you should explore your options and take the necessary steps to engage. Some things take a little money but let me tell you a secret. If it (life) is asking you to dance then the path is already clear for you. The opportunity is just waiting for you to grab it by the hand and DANCE!!!