The Cure for Everything is Dancing

#justdance

Challenge me to a dance-off when I'm two shots in, and I don't think there'll be a clear winner. Because by then, the competition will have left my mind, and I'll just be lost in the ether of another musical dimension.

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I have been having so much fun dancing lately. Dancing as in flinging my limbs around and jumping up-and-down and side-to-side. I have been dancing with my friends— twirling them around like a prima ballerina.

For the night, I will be hedonistic! I will move in a way that feels fun and right and the anxieties in my head will leave for just a moment.

Everything about the band nights are so raw. There are no buffer between the musicians and my ears. The music is not a perfectly recorded single on Spotify with the bass adjusted to tea, but something so tangible and real. It is so human. So I must be human, too! I don’t have to be this refined individual, because frankly, I could not care less.

Tonight, I will be a pillar of sobriety and I want to live outside my head and dance to the drums without being tipsy. That is my goal. I will dance myself clean. ¹

Except we can dance…

1. I am so determined. I enrolled in a salsa dancing class next semester. Will dance myself so incredibly clean.