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is this person finding it weird that people dance to music
Those moments aren’t far away, we just have to recognize and take them when the opportunities arise. Just today I had an impromptu duet with a kid at work (special needs education.) Nobody else in the room recognized the song she was singing, so when I filled in the next line she lit up like a Christmas tree. We ended up doing a call-and-response kind of thing, and even got to teach others how the song went.
Good vibes, good times. It’s important to enjoy the little things. :)
What?
My brain is that ‘pure’ right now.
… what is wrong with you people?!
Jig with me! With me ye shall get jiggy!
Imagine like 1518 and your brain is so pure that a guy dancing nearby juices your dopamine so hard you literally get up and start dancing, but you can’t stop dancing for weeks and you die.
I think they used it as an excuse to get out of work.
I’ve been to a big pagan festival, there was a huge bonfire in the middle of the campground and about two dozen people were sitting around it playing mostly drums but also other instruments. Then a woman with a fiddle started playing this really catchy tune and people just started dancing, and jumping around the fire, barely clothed and just… enjoying themselves. Sure, MJ and alcohol might have been involved with some few people, but most of us were just high on the moment, watching the sparks of the fire float into a clear, starry, warm night sky.
All of it in front of this backdrop:
We were all so happy, so light, so warm, everybody was friends with everybody, even though nobody knew anybody else, you could drift through the little groups, share a story with a stranger, go to another one of the small fires, share a beer with them, learning and immediately forgetting their names and all the eyes around you were soft and friendly and curious. The passion of life ran through our veins and the feeling of being young and alive was overwhelming. Me and my GF fucked like rabbits that night in our tent, still listening to the music and the noise of people singing and laughing and I can still feel her lips on my collarbone when I think back to how we sat at the fire and just… existed.
How about fuck you, I’m jealous
Oh wow what is that rock formation and where is it? They cut out doors & rooms & added stairs in the bridge, such a medieval vibe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externsteine
Thanks to the stairs people would go up there at night and do fire juggling. Impressive as hell! I had to pat a guy on the head once to extinguish his hair. That’s a fun memory, he hadn’t even realized yet and looked at me like a puppy-twink getting pet by a bear. X´D
It’s really sad that the festival became a place for binge-drinking and then the municipality shut it down in 2010. I think my first visit was 2003 and my last was 2008.
i have friends who literally play music around fires and you’d be surprised how little time away from screens it takes for this to happen
100% - stop imagining. Go do it.
Get a $10 tin whistle, spend 15 minutes a day for one month practicing, go on a hike. At the top of the mountain / hill / in a field / near a brook - pull out the whistle and play “Black Velvet Band.” You may have to dance around a bit to get others to figure out WTF you’re on about, but they’ll join in. And they’ll tell the story for ages, hoping you come on the next hike.
hell yeah - I think most of us need a reminder that whimsy exists
Also imagine like 1880 and the myriad of cultural problems that brings. Also consider the state of medical practice and whether or not anesthesia is a good idea at that time.
Not only dancing, dancing until your heart gives out.
I kinda get it though. There’s a weird feedback loop that can occur between crowds and musicians that I’m sure a lot of us have experienced. A neighbor of flow state but with added euphoria.
They were constantly fried on laudunum, cocaine, and rotgut whiskey; there’s just something deeply wonderful about singing and making music with other people that recordings simply can’t grasp.
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