I love dancing. I've never had any real practice, but it is one of my favorite things to do. Listening to Frank Sinatra sing about love, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington blow their brass, and Michael Buble echo the classics with his AMAZING voice makes me want to dance. I want to grab onto someone and swing around, twist and sway to the rhythm, laughing and smiling the whole time.
Dance has also given me an outlet, a way to focus, much like gymnastics has. It's beautiful, graceful, and requires precision. Dance molds into my life, even the non-practiced kind I do.
So I've been in the mood to go out in a dress and step out, shake my booty a little...it doesn't matter how I'm dancing, just that I'm dancing.
I also want to see "Black Swan", a psychological thriller with Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman as competing ballerinas.
The movie has a quote I Stumbled upon:
"Perfection is not just about control; it is also about letting go."
I guess that's what this is all about: learning when to control and when to let go. When to analyze every step and muscle twitch and when to just feel the rhythm and go for it. Gymnastics, rock climbing, love, dance, life, work...everything needs the same balance of control and free-falling.
I went out last night, even though I had misgivings about it. It made me realize what great friends I have, the wonderful women and men in my life, and the amazingly supportive people I'm going to be living with.
Everything is working out, maybe not how I planned, but it's working. Like I told Adam, "Nothing always works, but everything works for a while."
Even when everything isn't perfect in my life, I've been lucky enough to have a perfect life full of love.
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