Dance With Me

Derek Sivers is a great leader! Sharing his video where I first saw Dancing Man.

It takes a lot of courage to let your heart be free, especially in public.

You risk embarrassing yourself, but more importantly, you risk ostracization if no one else steps up with their own heart of courage.

Isn't having those you love embarrassed by you worse than embarrassment for yourself?  (The answer is yes.)

When a person is daring to let it all hang out, in the 90s we had a name for that - let your freak flag fly.

Not in an introspective 'FU, I am what I am and everyone can deal with me me me', but in a 'how cool is this thing I figured out and you can totally join me' kind of way.

There is a BIG difference in these attitudes, because one is selfish and separative and the other one is empowering and unifying through a display of diversity that naturally bubbles out of those we call artists (and other names like weirdo behind their backs, of course.)

When you see yourself, like the guy in the video, moved by the music or art or movie or whatever, what do you do?

Do you look around to see what others are doing?

Do you close your eyes and immerse yourself in the rush of hormone and emotion?

Or do you shout, jump up out of your seat and dance?

Yes!  All are yes!

This means that you are awake and alive to the beauty that is art and its participation in creating it.

Yes!  Now dance with me.