
That would be me and the tango.
Do people have difficulty following you?
Are they muddled by your musings about the flaws in our current cultural mythologies? Do they retreat at your ruminations about the future of the planet? Do they get lost in your lectures about quadratic equations?
Well, my geekly one, I have the answer for you. If you want someone to follow you, learn to lead the Argentine tango.
You heard me.
This is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. This dance is made for you. It will stretch your brain in many directions all at once. It will demand that you tap your creative exuberance. It will celebrate your sensitivity and your intuitive powers.
And you will be popular. Yes, indeed. If you learn how to lead the Argentine tango, women and men will wait eagerly to dance with you. You will no longer be the nerd, the outcast, the last-one-picked-for-the-team. No. They will adore you. And you will finally be with people who can follow you.
I’m not making this up.
By the way, I’m speaking to both men and women. Even though only men lead the tango in Argentina, women lead in the US, and in other countries as well. And, in my experience, gender is irrelevant. You become two souls gliding through space connected to music, floor, your hearts, and the Mystery.
But there is one glitch. Just one. You won’t learn it right away. It will take time. Persistence. Failure. You may not have much experience with that. If you’re used to being the fastest learner in the room, think again. But that’s OK. That’s good. Taking the risk to try something where you won’t excel at first will open new doors. And if you’re a parent, it’ll be good modeling for your kids.
And, once you learn it–nirvana.
Not only that. You’ll look around the room, and there will be other geeks there. You might even find one who loves your musings about the flaws in our current cultural mythologies.
And just so you know, at Fermilab, near Chicago, where they study high-energy physics, they hold Argentine tango classes. Pamela Noyes said, in their August 2008 newsletter Fermilab Today, “Physics and tango both require passion to become very good…Physicists follow motion with their equations. Tango dancers follow each others motion with their senses…. If done well, both are extremely gratifying, perhaps one more to the mind and the other to the senses.”
So learn to lead the Argentine tango. And get followed.
May 31, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Ohhhh, yes, I remember the Mystery dancing with you, sweet Paula!
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May 31, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Vicky!!! So glad to hear from you. Where are you living and what are you up to? Send me an e-mail, please. paula@rainforestmind.com
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August 21, 2014 at 6:20 pm
o.o Really? I think I have some research to do now >.> My other half and I have been wanting to learn ballroom dancing, but couldn’t decide on what direction to go, and were worried that just wanting to learn it wasn’t a good enough reason to spend the money. If what you say is true though…. Definitely worth the research!
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June 16, 2018 at 6:48 pm
I just recently found a DVD of me at a tango lesson in 2004. Check it out! https://youtu.be/B7UeGh6u0P8
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