Well, we near another Christmas and as I have said before, this particular time of the year is one of my favourites. However, I know that for many it is also a time for reflection and sometimes reflection brings on a certain nostalgia or at least a wish that we may have done certain things differently in the year just gone.
It is, of course, also the very time for making resolutions that we know will not
be kept for very long. However, for a few days we kid ourselves that things will get better because we are all going to lose loads of weight (after Christmas), will exercise like mad (after Christmas), spend a lot less money (after Christmas) and always be good humoured and pleasant (after Christmas).
We are all the same, keen to make ourselves promises we can not or will not
keep knowing it won’t really matter as we will rationalise every failed resolution from now until next Christmas.
But today, I am going to steal Steve’s idea (in the team’s wishes features
in this magazine). How about forgetting getting slimmer (from here, you look lovely just as you are), exercising aplenty (as the song goes “Don’t go changing to try and please me”) or doing anything that will transform you (love you just the way you are!) and take a really simple pledge….and keep it.
You have a whole year to bring a new friend to your Line dance class.
Someone you know and has never tried it, with reasons like (Oh, no it is not for me! I couldn’t do it!) or (I hate yeehahh stuff) or (Dancing in a line? Not very cool is it?)… just tell them that if they are half the person you think they are they will give it a go and forget their preconceptions for two hours.
Either they will like it or they wont BUT the point is that YOU will have tried
to make a difference. Imagine if every dancer in the UK alone brought a new person along and only 50% liked and stayed on, we would have thousands more on our floors very soon.
So before I wish you the merriest and the bestest and all that, see what you
can do in your corner of the world. You may open the doors of friendship to a new soul AND help, in your own way, to keep the numbers up. How great would that be?
But for now, I and our whole team hope you have the best of times, that your
turkey will fit in the oven, that the said oven won’t break down and that you won’t miss your dance class too much during the festivities.
See you all in 2012!
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