Almost every day on Facebook, someone post something called tango truisms. Thought you all might like this one, from this morning.
Today's ‪#‎Tango‬ Truism 587: Tango can be fun! Just don't count on it being fun for very long. Other things will eventually creep into your experience. Not the least of which is an evil of human existence - comparison! You'll begin to compare yourself to what you see on the floor to what you're doing, after that, it stops being fun for a while or even a long while. What's happened is you have started to care, and really to invest your emotions in what you're doing, in how you look, in who you're dancing with and why. In a way it's as if adam has taken a bite from the tree of knowledge and has realized he's naked. After that there's going to be a lot of recriminations, realizations, doors that were previously unknown to you will magically appear, lots of education about the society that you're in and what you're doing and how you're doing it, an awakening of self, perceptions, musical tastes will change - radically from alternative to nuevo (piazzolla, late pugliese) to golden age to period specificity, partners will disappear almost instantly and new ones will take their place with the same speed, etc. Eventually, ... a very long eventually - years in fact, the pendulum will swing in the other direction and the dance will become fun again. You may consider (and actually do) throw in the towel a few times, you may walk away from it, you may come back to it, but in the end you'll come full circle...the dance will be fun, again. ©2014 Tango Truisms.