Salsa lessons 6

I’ve been in a slumber for so long that the clarity struck me like lighting, leaving me on the spot wriggling in pain while at the same time, electrified to overflowing with life. A little insight for you on the events that led me to this clarity. As I said before, there is something missing, something I wasn’t getting about my dance. Now, that’s the only part you should retain from all my previous posts on my adventures in Salsa.

Fast forward to today and I danced with Dihilia at about 80% of my maximum ability with Salsa level 1 steps, but it was enough to awaken something in me. If you want me to describe me, I can only reference to the fight club scene where Tyler was describing how fighting changes your perspective in life. How you start sizing people up on the street and everyone you meet. With that slight disapproving scowl on his face. As if your whole life before this was unsatisfying, you can beat up anyone you meet and you are pissed that you only realized it now. To tell you the truth, I probably danced like I used to, or probably even less skillful than before when I was at my prime. What has changed is a complete synchronization of dance and life. I don’t have to pretend anymore and what I dance is what I am.

Or, another way of describing this, I have become what I pretended to be.