Dance Like No One Is Watching...
In the fullness of Georgia's Summer Heat wave, and a crowd of people seated on blankets and camping chairs, rocking out to the tunes of Wil Smith, Willow Smith, and put in a few dance moves to the Electric Slide and the Cha Cha at Stone Mountain Park's Laser Show, I watched the children. They danced to the music' prompting and beat. They jumped and smiled smiles that only come with the freedom of being authentically themselves. A few teenagers, dressed in the same blue colored T-shirt, mustard up the courage to dance together. But these three to five year olds instinctively have this freedom to jump and dance like no one is watching, because they don't concern themselves with what others think.
This got me to thinking. At what age do we start caring about what others think? And when did we stop dancing freely, uninhibited to be our authentic selves. I believe it was some adult, who began telling their child(ren) to "sit down, people are watching" that could have began the process of caring about what others thinks. While it was that adult, sitting on the sidelines who I believe was in the wrong. He or she should have been up dancing, be in the rain, in the park or in the house, and evening singing to the top of their lungs, like no one was watching.
An audience of one is the best audience to be your authentic self. If someone is watching, perhaps they will have the good notion to join in and live a little bit more. Now that's DA Art of Living!
Click and paste link to see two year old dancing the Pase Doble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrhAw_3HVx8&feature=related
~Simply Lady Dana
July 2012 (c)
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