Struggles

This week's lesson was fairly frustrating, as my dancing did not reflect how much progress I feel that I have made in the last few weeks. For some reason, immediately upon starting to dance yesterday, I felt off: I don't know if I had not had enough sleep, I was run down or the dance moves were too complicated, I was just off, and my dancing definitely reflected my affect. As you can imagine, it can be fairly frustrating to dance for two straight hours when you feel like you have not gotten anything right all day, and that is exactly how I felt yesterday for the first hour of the morning. Although the dancing was admittedly much less fun than it normally is due to my hefty struggles, I really appreciated my classmates being so supportive, proving constructive feedback in a polite way that helped spark a better second hour of dancing for me. Yesterday's tango lesson reinforced the importance of support among those that you are dancing with, especially in a dance where frustration seems to merely be a normal part of the learning process.