The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing

For those of you who have seen the old movie "White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby, you may recognize the title of this blog from one of the songs in the movie! A few years back I learned how the waltz, which is a very elegant, romantic style of dance. Recently, some of my friends and I learned how to swing dance, which is very up-beat, fun dancing. I am not a wonderful dancer, but I enjoy it immensely!

  As the song that inspired my title was playing over and over in my head, I realized that it's true-some of the best things do happen when you dance. First of all, you learn team-work! If one of you is off-beat, then it totally throws the other person off and you have to stop dancing for a moment, feel the beat, and then start dancing again. In the same way, if one person steps the wrong way or is out of synchronization with the other person, it makes the dance very awkward. While dancing, you must become one in movement. One person must lead, and one must follow, making team-work extremely important.

Another aspect of dancing is emotion. Have you ever heard the saying, "Dancing encourages affection"?  This saying is true, but luckily, dancing doesn't always have to water the seed of romance-it can feed friendships instead! Something really wonderful about dancing is that when becoming one in movement, you draw closer together as friends, and end up having buckets of fun while doing so! Even if you're extremely clumsy like me, you can still laugh and have a splendid time.