What ever makes you happy!

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I turned the corner into the icecream aisle at the supermarket and there was what looked like a middle aged woman doing a half step back along with the store music and maybe she did a rock step forward.
She stopped and started looking at the pop sickles through he glass.
I wish she would have kept dancing but evidently she didn’t want an audience.
I grabbed my ice cream from the cooler on the other side from her and went about finishing up my shopping.
I went through the self checkout and at first I didn’t notice that she was walking ahead of me going out.
She turned left just outside the doors and I watched her walk away.
That was when I noticed the rhythm in her step and the graceful way she moved.
I thought to myself there’s a woman who dances her way through life.
God Bless her for the joy she gets from that.
I thought about how I sang all the time when I was working. I know I wasn’t a good singer and that it sounded better to me than it did to anyone else and a few people even told me that.
But I know how that singing made me happy.
So don’t be afraid to sing or dance your way through life if that is what makes you happy and who cares what anybody else thinks.
 

Great story. In my training as a Buddhist monk I was told to understand that humans love to play. Practicing an attitude of playfulness about everyday occurrences and activity. I was told that this philosophy/psychology was written about. "Homo Ludens" is the term. This is a snippet of the Homo Ludens Wikipedia entry :
The view we take in the following pages is that culture arises in the form of play, that it is played from the very beginning... Social life is endued with supra-biological forms, in the shape of play, which enhances its value.[21]
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Huizinga does not mean that "play turns into culture". Rather, he sets play and culture side by side, talks about their "twin union", but insists that "play is primary".[21]
Homo Ludens - Wikipedia

I practiced changing my attitude when a circumstance was confusing or bothersome to me into one of seeing the occurrence as a playing with others. I have had magical results with this. The whole situation changes dynamics, immediately, and communication remains friendly and informative. One of the songs I wrote was called "Keep on Dancing". :)
 
The only Huizingas I've personally known ran a good sized local produce market when I was young.
 

I’m a singer and used to sing on my walk with the dogs. Now that my husband is retired I don’t sing. I’ve thought about it but that would be considered rude. lol. He enjoys talking with me so I gave up my singing to talk with him and have mixed feelings about it. I hope that doesn’t sound mean, cause I don’t mean it to be.
 
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