Dancing Alone in Your House
I do not know what it is about some people, but they just have "it." The "it" being the thing that draws others in, all different kinds of others, and makes them interested in life. And these people don't do anything over the top, honestly it is often no more than daily tasks, but somehow they have something about them, or within them, that makes us see the MUNDANE as magical.
Well I have one of those friends. She, since the moment I met her, has had the "it." Everything she does, everything she talks about just makes you so interested in the life you're living that you see magic. I often find myself trying to describe this friend to others but never can find the words to compose the truly beautiful description she deserves. But really, she is quite simple: she is so present in the MUNDANE that LOVE just radiates off of her.
So dance alone. That is what she says. One day she posted a short video of herself, alone, in her house, dancing. Then she posted another. And another, until it became her thing. She doesn't do it for the trend or for the views or for her platform. She does it because it makes her feel free.
She then challenged us to do it. No pressure, but just captioned her own video with, "I challenge you to dance alone in your house." So eventually I did. I was feeling silly and sad, like I had a lot I was holding, so I set up my camera, put on "Uptown Funk," and I danced.
I cannot perfectly capture for you what dancing alone in your house does to you. It makes you feel free and yet like you're being watched. It makes you forget everything and yet notice every detail of the song. It is kind of like LOVE. I often say "LOVE is the most logical illogical thing in this world." I still think that is true, but what is true about that is the paradox of LOVE. LOVE can be, at the same time, two opposites in one experience. It can be so wrong and yet so right. I discovered that LOVE is what you hold when you're alone, in your house, dancing.
It is hard to be present on days where you feel like half of the time everything is all right and the other half of the time nothing is in place. Yet somehow a very MUNDANE experience like dancing alone in your house allows you to hold the logic and the illogic, all at once. Dancing in your house allows you to hold LOVE, and don't we all need to hold LOVE sometimes!
So as my friend encouraged me, I encourage you: have you tried dancing alone in your house?
