Emotions and Dancing

“There's so much that we miss
trying so hard to be rich and famous,
pretty and thin, to win
It's a shame that youth is wasted on the young
So forget everything and just be with me here and now
for as long as we can, and whoever goes first save a spot”

 

So, I watch this show that you might have heard of called Grey’s Anatomy. I have been watching it since the second season, back when it was sort of good, and I have always loved the relationship between Meredith and Christina. Instead of calling each other “best friends” they refer to each other as ‘their person” and I have always loved that sentiment of someone always being there for you and loving you no matter what.

One of the things that I have always taken away from the Meredith-Christina relationship is the dancing. When things get bad they dance. It seems like a simple solution but some of the most memorable moments from the show are the ones when they are dancing. Those couple of minutes convey so much emotion that it captivates me in way that nothing else quite can.

This weekend I received some bad news, that I won’t divulge here because it is very personal, and tonight I was feeling pretty down in the dumps. I thought about Meredith and Christina and decided that what I needed was a dance party. So, I poured myself a glass of wine and put on some danceable music. As I started to dance I began to understand just how great the two actresses who play Meredith and Christina really are; they are able to truly convey emotion during a truly difficult time.

Tonight, I cranked some guilty pleasure dance music and jumped around my apartment. At first it felt so great. It was a release, my emotion was being released and I felt better. Then after a few songs I started to feel like dancing was an empty expression, it held no real meaning. I started to feel all those emotions that I was trying to escape from in first place. This is when I started to listen to songs that hit my current emotion.

Sometimes it is therapeutic to just get your emotions out there not matter if they are expressed by dancing or by listening sad songs. Tonight I experienced both through a slow progression from dancing to sad songs. I certainly learned something about myself tonight; that I can change my mood very quickly through whatever type of music that I listen too, but that my true emotion will always catch up with me at some point.