Life is inevitability filled with numerous opponents - death, grief, shame, guilt to name a few. It is naive to assume life won't knock you down. Therefore life is much more like wrestling than dancing. However, a great wrestler is a great dancer. They match grit with grace. But to not embrace pain is to not embrace the inevitable.
I do see the advantage of forging one's way through the hard parts. On the other hand, I am finding that I keep going back to the benefit of dancing throughout one's lifetime. There is so little time given to dance that people are generally self conscious about some free dancing in public. Also, dancing could be a community activity, for the young and old together.
Think of the gigantic hockey arenas and Rock concert venues and people don't spend 5 minutes dancing there.
In Geriatric facilities you see only a few will get up and dance to music, yet it is of great benefit to keeping a youthful spirit and a happy spirit. When the music starts, will you be a stone at age 90, or will you rock rock rock rock n roll?
It's almost like dancing is verboten in our culture. In Western/Cowboy movies they feature square dances where isolated rural farmers and ranchers would get together for fun. A good example of that is in the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Superb, athletic dancing in that movie.
Life is inevitability filled with numerous opponents - death, grief, shame, guilt to name a few. It is naive to assume life won't knock you down. Therefore life is much more like wrestling than dancing. However, a great wrestler is a great dancer. They match grit with grace. But to not embrace pain is to not embrace the inevitable.
ps. Hockey is essentially dancing on ice
I do see the advantage of forging one's way through the hard parts. On the other hand, I am finding that I keep going back to the benefit of dancing throughout one's lifetime. There is so little time given to dance that people are generally self conscious about some free dancing in public. Also, dancing could be a community activity, for the young and old together.
Think of the gigantic hockey arenas and Rock concert venues and people don't spend 5 minutes dancing there.
In Geriatric facilities you see only a few will get up and dance to music, yet it is of great benefit to keeping a youthful spirit and a happy spirit. When the music starts, will you be a stone at age 90, or will you rock rock rock rock n roll?
It's almost like dancing is verboten in our culture. In Western/Cowboy movies they feature square dances where isolated rural farmers and ranchers would get together for fun. A good example of that is in the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Superb, athletic dancing in that movie.