THIS ONE IS FOR THE DANCERS!
Recently, I started a second job. I want to get caught up on bills and I want to be able to save up for a trip to Rome. I’m dead set on going on another trip by myself and if you haven’t done it yet, I highly recommend it. But since I started a second job that means I’m going to have to have more willpower when it comes to dancing. I might not come out as much or stay as late but I still want to be surrounded by my friends and to dance because I love dancing! But that brings me to my point. As a group, we REAAALLLY need to stop battering people for being responsible.
How many times has our friend tried to leave right when the night is getting good because they have to work in the morning and we beg them into staying later or calling into work? We tell them, You only live once!! Or come on, just stay for a few more songs! Or you can’t leave yet, I never come out!!
I get it. I do. I want all of my friends out there at the same time, dancing the night away. But we are also adults, trying to better our lives by working or studying hard. And it takes a lot of willpower to tell our friends begging us to stay that we have to leave to get some sleep for work the next morning. I think some of us have just learned through experience, even though it should be common sense, that if you stay out until 2am and have to work at 7am the next morning, a small part of your soul is going to die.
Because of this, I think we should be conscious of our friends needs and encourage them to be responsible. If you are my friend and even if I haven’t seen you in awhile and you tell me you that you have to go, you really want to stay but you seriously have to go because you have to be at work in seven hours. I’m going to kick your butt out of the door. Not because I don’t want you there but because I know it’s hard to walk away from the friends and the fun. If we are a family like we say we are, we wouldn’t be peer pressuring each other like 5 year olds on a playground into something that is going to hurt us the next day.
Of course, if you say you have to be at work at 7am and I look at my phone and it’s 2am, I’m going to then look at you like you’re crazy and suggest you go home and get some rest but if you decide to stay anyways; I get that too. Sometimes, on rare occasions it can be fun to stay out way to late. But I am NOT going to be the one begging you to stay. It should be 100% your decision.
If we encourage this culture where we are happy to see each other, even if it’s only for a couple hours and we don’t pressure our friends to stay late when they have to get up early, I think we would see a lot more of our friends that would otherwise choose to stay home because they are afraid that they won’t be able to leave at a decent hour. Imagine a dance culture that encourages responsibility and awareness, not only would we grow but the support would increase and as years passed, we would turn into a group with degrees. A group with well paying jobs. A group that can easily support their children and a group that has real influence in the cities around us. And we wouldn’t have to give up dancing to accomplish these things!! Of course there are plenty in the group that already have these accomplishments but I think we should be fostering achievement and responsibility more than hindering it for another hour of fun.
So I ask you to challenge yourself for the next week or so. If you’re talking or dancing with a friend and they tell you that they have to leave, stop yourself. Before you beg them to stay; think about them and their needs and encourage them to go home and get some rest.
Comment below or on the facebook page if you agree or disagree. THANK YOU FOR READING!
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