"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."
~
Edwin Denby
It doesn't always take alcohol to get you high. Spirit, of a different nature, can do it just as well. Loud music and dim lights work in my case. A current passes through the nerves, and I unknowingly begin to jig. The crowd going crazy, the music getting louder and the disco lights blinking wildly is the perfect concoction for losing it completely! You can dance like no one's watching, quite literally. Who said you must learn to dance? We are born with an innate ability to react to the rhythm of music.
Hours pass away in a jiffy. Before you know, you've been on the dance floor all night long. If not for the sunrise, you wouldn't really notice.Your clothes are drenched. Your hair is mangled. But who cares! It's only when you stop that you realise your feet are sore. Your neck is stiffer than a ramrod, thanks to all that head banging. The back hurts no less, and not to forget the legs! But it's totally worth it. It's your feet that move, it's your soul they lift. It is a liberation from inhibitions, a shedding of reservations. And as Lord George Gordon Byron aptly put it,
"On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet,
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
The bed seldom looks as welcoming and the quilt as cozy as it does after a frenetic dance session. You are bound to fall asleep in a matter of minutes. For sleep comes easy to a content and happy mind, no matter how tired the body is. Next morning you will wake up with a rigid body, and a mind that awaits the next opportunity to let your hair down.
