Dancing Alone

Have you ever enjoined in an anticipated choreographically staged dance step with a total stranger? You have, I have, we all have! Even though you save your confessions for the dance floor, or better yet stand in front of your mirror in your locked bedroom two-stepping, bumping and grinding or shaking your booty to your favorite beat, out on the streets, in the mall, in the hallways, we all break out into an unanticipated dance sequence. We do that, not because we think life is a dance-floor and the sun is a disco ball, ironically we step back and forth in a quasi sequential manner in order to avoid human contact. You know what I am talking about, when someone is coming your way, and u try to make sure you do no collide with them, so you start thinking about where to step, or how swiftly yet abruptly shift your body so that no skin to skin contact is made. The next thing you know you find yourself hoping from one foot to the next in an organized frenzy, trying to maintain your cool in complete annoyance of the situation…Then you realize, you have to spit out the words “Excuse me” gritting beneath a stretched out fake smile. Finally, you have successfully avoided your “annoyer” and can now carry on with your normal life, having by passed what could have potentially been an accident… Individualism is engulfing human kind, eating us up like a parasite decaying a corpse that has been laying there for thousands of years. Our life has become barren, as barren as a virgin’s bed, and so devoid of emotion that the people in the Dark Ages would feel sorry for us. We live alone in a world filled with over 6 billion people. The newspapers ranted and raved about the “Day of the 6 Billion” at the turn of the 21st century, but I don’t see even two neighbors talking to each other and they only live a footstep away. We complain that the neighbors are turning their TV up too loud, but we never care when there is silence, we have come to enjoy it. Silence has become golden, so wouldn’t that mean that a ghost town would be the idea of paradise, where nothing but the silence of the night is heard, and the beating of the sun’s rays.
May be if sometimes we take the chance to talk to total strangers we will try and reconnect with each other, and not through the media, phone, internet and blogging (ironically), but through old fashion conversations... Get to know the people you share this world with, you never know how they could help you improve your dance moves.