“Relationships are like a dance. It’s as much about your patience, kindness, confidence, and sense of rhythm as it is your choice of partner.”
“The opportunities for body-contact highlight how wonderfully non-politically correct dance is. It’s about display and seduction… And once you get into real dancing – partner dancing – you’ve got the added inequality of somebody having to follow.”
“Relationships are like a dance, one couple or group may be doing a waltz and another is doing the tango. Both are beautiful in their own right.”
“The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move interdependently, as a unit.”
Dancing is the universal body language and an unspeakable meaningfulness.
While you’re sitting around thinking about what you can’t change, and worrying about all the wrong things, time’s flying by, moving so fast. You better make it count ‘cause you can’t get it back. Sometimes that mountain you’ve been climbing is just a grain of sand.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives your purpose and meaning.
When you love someone, there’s a pattern to the way you come together. You might not even realize it, but your bodies are choreographed: a touch on the hip, a stroke of the hair. A staccato kiss, break away, a longer one. It’s a routine, but not in the boring sense of the word. It’s just the way you’ve learned to fit.
The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it’s all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.
