I Learned How Fun Dancing Is
I grew up in a neighborhood that was pretty traditional. The men had their roles, and the women had their roles. The men worked, and the women stayed at home with the kids. There were no business owners, only employees. If there was one thing that men did not do, it was certainly dancing. The thought never crossed my mind.
A couple semesters into my university studies, a good friend of mine and I went on a double date together. We ended up going to a dance, but in my naivety I just figured we would watch or waddle around. As it happened, my friend and his date knew how to swing dance and they taught my date and I some moves. The best part about it was that we had a blast.
The next semester I enrolled in a social dance class taught at the university. I was not very good at the beginning but I got better. The next semester I took another dance class, followed by another, and another. In total, I think I took seven dance classes until I graduated. My favorite is Latin dance, although my hips do not quite move like they are supposed to. When I got married, my wife and I enrolled in dancing lessons in Ashburn VA and have had a lot of fun.
For those guys like me who thought dancing is sissy stuff, I will agree and disagree. There is still a lot of dancing that is sissy stuff, however, the type of dancing where you get to dance with a partner is a heck of a lot of fun, and nothing sissy about it.