We're Falling Apart, So Let's Dance

Hey everybody :) It's been pretty quiet lately and Lindy and I apologise if we've neglected you! But the sad fact of life is that every now and then, these awful things called exams come up.

It was James Ruse Food Fair yesterday and there were the mingling smells of chinese/indian

/korean cuisine everywhere - heaven! In fact I would have been completely

relaxed and prepared to enjoy myself if it wasn't for a life-threatening situation. I was set to perform in a dance to the general public with my crew (such a cool word) . The problem was that we hadn't even finished half of it.

I might be dramatising but let me just say that embarrassing yourself in public is not fun - and this is coming from someone who once tripped on stage in front of an audience of 500. Unless you have the steel balls of a dumbbell, we all fear trying, and failing in front of people who will judge us for it. So I was genuinely worried this incomplete dance which we'd stupidly left to last minute was going to ruin my day.

We spent the 4 hours leading up to our performance practising and choreographing. Yes we improved, but mostly everyone just got sweatier, tired and crankier.

Finally it was 20 minutes to dance time, and I was still completely clueless about a lot of parts. Even though the crowd had died down, there were people out there - people I knew - who were going to see me fail. And to cheer things up, it was raining.

But you know in the midst of all that worrying, I forgot the most important thing of all. And I have to specially mention Dennis Lam, who reminded me before we went on why we started dancing.

"It doesn't matter if we dance well or not. If you don't know it, make it up! As long as we have fun with it, nothing else counts."

And he was right - we forgot that dancing is meant to be a joy! An expression of how music moves us - literally haha.

What did we do? We walked out in the rain, and the music started playing - and we danced.

I have no idea what we did (I may have pulled out some macarena moves) but we laughed and spun and ... danced!

It was exhilirating, and honestly the most fun I have ever had performing anything in my life.

So the lesson to me (and maybe you) is fear is something that stops you from living life properly.

It doesn't matter what other people think of you - Marilyn Monroe once said, "If people can't accept me at my worse, they sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

One thing that made me smile incredibly was how the year 11's still braved sitting in the rain to cheer us on and support us even though it was not the best conditions, or the best dance.

So thanks to them, and to the crew Jess, Dennis, Merry, Ean, Ray: It didn't look like Step Up 2 BUT YAY WE DID IT!

Here's the link if you can want to see how we danced. Be warned.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=455894441910

Always remember, Happiness Equals Bracket