Too dependent on dancing?

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tacad

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Are we too dependent on dancing? I just read youngsta's thread where he's giving up and going to the club even though he's sick. I and my swelled toe are dying to get out but I'm hanging tough. I suppose I could go to some loco (sorry, I meant local) club, or a poetry reading :shock: somewhere but it doesn't seem to inspire me. I keep meaning to add something else to my life, but what?--Give up a night of dancing?--No way!

sigh So when everyone gets back from dancing tonight, what do you think?

EDIT: I'm going to go wander around and see what happening things are happening. This ought to be interesting :roll: .

EDIT: Nah, I'm going to stay home and ice my toe. I'd rather get better so I can dance again. See what I mean? I'm giving up doing something non-dancing so I can do something dancing. Is this healthy?
 
I'm trying to find abalance too, tacad. :oops: When I do non-dance things it is with dance friends so somehow it becomes something about dancing...
 
I hear'ya tacad! I stayed home tonight myself nursing a cold. I'm really bummed about it, but I'd rather not infect anybody. I've been there before where one dancer gets sick, and spreads it to everyone they've danced with, and so on.....you get the idea. You said it yourself, "I'd rather get better so I can dance again!" Looks like we were both better off taking the same advice!

Illness and injury are temporary---> fortunately there'll always be another chance to dance!(':lol:')
Feel better!
 
Thanks rockindj! You get better too. You're right about illness being temporary. But once it's over you forget about it. Oh well. Life goes on. If I don't get better by tomorrow I probably will explore something else. Nightclubs? Karaoke? There's a thought :roll: .

Welcome to DF by the way! Sorry it's under the circumstances of a cold though.

EDIT: Man, you're up late. So you do know about the coolest place in DF right? Insomniacs R us in Dancer's Anonymous. Check in. You will make SDsalsaguy's day.
 
tacad said:
I suppose I could go to some loco (sorry, I meant local) club, or a poetry reading :shock: somewhere but it doesn't seem to inspire me. I keep meaning to add something else to my life, but what?--Give up a night of dancing?--No way!

(snip)

EDIT: Nah, I'm going to stay home and ice my toe. I'd rather get better so I can dance again. See what I mean? I'm giving up doing something non-dancing so I can do something dancing. Is this healthy?
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I used to be like that, with my aikido. It occupied so much of my mind, and my time. If there was a a period of time when I had nowhere to train, I did not know what to do. Being injured was terribly frustrating.

I left aikido after a painful time, that involved some conflicts between people. I was not the only one who got hurt. After leaving aikido, I decided I would never let anything become this important to me again. Really, I think I would have handled the whole story a lot better if aikido had not been such a major part of my life. I could have taken things more cool then, seen it from a better perspective. Rather, I would split my time between a couple of different interests. Right... I did some different things, but nothing I really loved. Nothing that I really missed if I did not do it. Then I stumbled on dancing.

I am deliberately trying to give other things time too, simply not to be too dependent on one activity and one bunch of people. In dancing though I can share my interest between different dances and dancing communities; so it is better than where I came from. Still...

Is it good for us to be single-minded like this? Generally, I'd say no. A truly happy and healthy person, I think, has a bunch of interests - I imagine a garden as a part of the package. :) I don't suppose I will ever be this happy gardening person, though. Some of us have this mysterious need of plunging myself into absorbing activitites; really, I think truly happy and healthy people are scarse.
 
I am happy and healthy!! :wink: :) Just want to find time to do some other activities so that if I'm having a horrible time with dance I simply move on to something else....
 
Don't put the whole meaning of your life into one hobby. What will happen if you get injured and can't dance any more? What do you have to fall back on?

I think it's smart to have more than one interest in life.
 
Well, it was your own question Sagitta... "is this healthy?" I suppose anything can be taken too far - not necessarily meaning it applies to you and your dancing...
 
tacad said:
Thanks rockindj! You get better too. You're right about illness being temporary. But once it's over you forget about it. Oh well. Life goes on. If I don't get better by tomorrow I probably will explore something else. Nightclubs? Karaoke? There's a thought :roll: .

Welcome to DF by the way! Sorry it's under the circumstances of a cold though.

EDIT: Man, you're up late. So you do know about the coolest place in DF right? Insomniacs R us in Dancer's Anonymous. Check in. You will make SDsalsaguy's day.
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I love it. Shameless IRU self-promotion. Woohoo! :banana: :wink: :lol:
 
Flat Shoes said:
Don't put the whole meaning of your life into one hobby. What will happen if you get injured and can't dance any more? What do you have to fall back on?

I think it's smart to have more than one interest in life.
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Amen to that, flat shoes. 8)
 
blue said:
Well, it was your own question Sagitta... "is this healthy?" I suppose anything can be taken too far - not necessarily meaning it applies to you and your dancing...
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It was actually my question :wink: . I'm trying to get more balanced but am not there yet. Getting closer.

Flat Shoes said:
Don't put the whole meaning of your life into one hobby. What will happen if you get injured and can't dance any more? What do you have to fall back on?

I think it's smart to have more than one interest in life.
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I think so too. By the way, cool avatar!

pygmalion said:
tacad wrote:
EDIT: Man, you're up late. So you do know about the coolest place in DF right? Insomniacs R us in Dancer's Anonymous. Check in. You will make SDsalsaguy's day.


I love it. Shameless IRU self-promotion. Woohoo! Dancing Banana Wink Laughing
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I have to go see if it worked.
 
In my case I do have plenty of other hobbies, but when it's a salsa night I automatically start thinking about dancing. If I have plans already I'm fine--but when my night is free and I KNOW theres a club open that night it's soooooo hard
 
I'm not as bad as I used to be. When faced with the idea of our studio closing down over Christmas last year, I felt cut off at the knees. This year I think I'm better prepared and just looking forward to my first lesson of the new year.

My dancing has been slowing down in the last couple of months to one night a week. I guess it's easier because I'm not going 4-5 days/nights a week this year. Won't feel like such a hole in my life!! :D
 
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