Mammy says 'Keep Dancing!'

One of the most important lessons I've learned is that life is a dance.

Sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow. When you lead, you do it gently, firmly and clearly, and when you follow, do you so with trust.

The amazing thing is that each one of us is involved in many dances at any one time - and we are the leader in some and the follower in others!

Some dances are slow and majestic and others are crazy and frenetic and still others are somewhere in between.

Our dances can start out as a waltz, become a tango and end up as the Charleston!

Some last a lifetime - others are over almost as soon as they begin.

Most of the time we manage not to fall flat on our faces, which is even more amazing and requires some pretty fancy footwork!

And sometimes we do trip up or our toes get squashed and we get hurt - but the important thing is to keep on dancing - no matter what!

Just keep dancing!

Even if you can't hear the music or you just don't feel like it or you have acquired two left feet, or you feel you should be leading and not following (or vice versa) keep on dancing!

The dance of life is a metaphor for being engaged and involved with life in all its wonderful, terrible, awesome, simple, complex rhythms.

It’s often safer and more comfortable to be a wallflower, but that leads to a lonely and isolated, unfulfilled experience, while the decision to be part of the dance brings pain and tears and challenges and the greatest joy imaginable!

It reminds me of the words of a Garth Brooks song -'our lives are better left to chance. I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance.'

Dance on!