"Shhhh," I say, "just dance".

Do you dance? Because you should. Any kind. Any where. All the time. I forget that sometimes, how much we need to dance, and thank my lucky stars for the days that remind me. Like this one for instance.

When I say you should dance, what I really mean is you should let go, loosen up, open up, and just move. Pick your style, any style. Each one is capable of positively changing your mood in some way or another. Ballet reminds me how to make strength beauty. Swing reminds me how to genuinely laugh, smile. Waltzing transforms me into Victorian age nobility. And modern, well modern is my epitome of dance. If you do not agree, that is ok, choose your own epitome, let me have mine. With the fluid, raw movements I release energy and gain it back all it once. I become independent and connect to the breath of the world. I fall in love.

"That's really nice for you" you say. "But you're a dancer, and I am obviously not, so I am not going to go dance. Nope, not me" you say. Do not walk away just yet. Because you can dance. Shh, shh, stop protesting and listen for a moment. Take my hand, yes, right now please. Ok, now we are going to go dance. Let's start with swing and I'll show you how you can dance without knowing any of the moves.

So here we are, at the edge of the dance floor.

"Look at all those people. They are so talented. I have no idea what they are doing, but they are talented. And I am not, let's leave" you say.

"Shhh" I say.

Step #1: STOP. Stop worrying and obsessing and doubting and thinking. That is right, stop thinking. Dancing requires feeling, not thinking.

"But..." you say.

"Shhhhh!" I say. You roll your eyes.

Step #2: Now that you've stopped thinking, you can feel the music. You heard it when you walked in, when you were thinking, but now you feel it right? You do, I can tell, look, your hips are swaying.

"Wow that's weird" you say.

"Shhh!" I say, "If you pay too much attention to them they'll stop. No thinking. Only feeling."

Step #3: Now you are smiling. Now you are ready to dance. Not because you want to. You have to. Your body won't let you do anything else. So I show you the basic: step, step, rock step. And now you are pulling me onto the floor. We are swinging and laughing and dancing. We are dancing.

"Look at that guy over there, at the edge of the dance floor," I say, "he's watching you. He's telling that girl to look at you, at how good you are, and now he is telling her he can't be that good. 'I can't dance' he says." You smile, and keep dancing. When this song is over, you will go tell him he can dance. And he will.

See? See how easy that was? You fell a little in love with it didn't you? So dance people. Let us all dance. On the dance floor yes, but also outside, down the hallway, in our rooms, in fields of daisies.

What is my idea of the perfect world? One that dances.