Any moment in which you feel like dancing is a perfect moment.
That quote has in some way been staring me in the face for years. It’s on the blog of a friend and it may well have been in her sig. for some time. It struck me last night. I pasted it into notepad and left the window open to remind me of it. So I fired off an email to see what it’s etymology is. Turns out it’s not some old philosopher or the like, it just happens to be her. I suspect it’s tied into a Londo quote from Babylon 5 but the whole dancing thing seems to be a theme so maybe not.
Anyway the reason it struck me was the amount of dancing last night. I dispute the wording of the quote because most times I feel like dancing it’s due to booze. As per usual last night, I wasn’t dancing much, I was sat at the table talking away to whomever was around. Not making an effort not to dance (much…) but just not doing it. And then, all of a sudden I was dancing, I don’t remember what the track was that lead into it or anything but there was dancing and it continued on for hours and it was fun. It usually us but given I really can’t dance I avoid it lots.
But there are equally moments, rare rare moments where I find myself dancing (it’s not really dancing but it fits for purposes of this discussion). The last time was when I managed to actually book U2 tickets for Dublin. There was singing and shouting too. Moments like that can be perfect moments and I guess that’s what I’m trying to say, when that feeling, that dancy feeling happens, it is absolutely a perfect moment.
I was gonna use a Bowie lyric for this one, it should be pretty easy to guess from which song and then I thought I could work something else in a sentence, it would actually be the words I’m trying to show through my fingers, from I want to Dance With Somebody. So I googled it to make sure I had it right and this reminded me it’s a Whitney Houston song. I have way too much self respect to use a lyric from her up here so it’s back to Bowie. But when I go and actually listen to Magic Dance, well it’s just not going to work.
I had been starting to worry that I didn’t write anymore. Updates were less frequent and pretty light and I never seemed to be in the mood to sit down and write. There were bits and pieces but they weren’t really much. Anyway that’s changed alot this week and indeed part of last week and well the words are appearing on the page.