........today I thought to try something new. And believe me, it was not the easiest thing to do...well partly because of what I chose (I think) to try. I tried to go for SALSA...!
Before I go any further, I should probably tell more about my dancing experiences till date...let me think, maybe a little harder, OK a little more, maybe, possibly I will remember something...! Nah...I don't think I will remember anything apart from those dance/jumps at some party/get-togethers/weddings - 'Baraat' processions...! So now you know, that I am not even at the level to be termed as a novice when it comes to dancing.
Well, my colleague asked me if I would like to try salsa once and give it a shot...? I don't know if it was the sushi I was having then or what, that I ended up saying 'Yeah sure, why not...! Trying once won't hurt!" And that was it...I kind of realized it as soon as I finished my sentence...I felt that it ain't gonna be as smooth as it was sayin' it !
So my colleague sent me the mail like 4-5days back, where I had to register for the session today. But since I had kind of realized my mistake right after I agreed to it, I preferred to delay the registration process :) My plan was pretty good though - Postpone the registration process till the last minute and then send a SMS
with an excuse that there were no more places left...!
So then came today, the D-Day. I was all ready and everything was going 'as planned'. So 11:00 was the starting time for the SALSA session. So, as per plan, I sent a SMS saying that I could not register because of XYZ reason. I was pretty relaxed after that (rather with a sense of achievement that my plan worked out as expected). But then, something, that I had not thought of happened. Well my colleague messaged me "Just come, it will be fine. You can have the registration here...!" Hmm, was really not expecting that but then I was stupid that I did not have a backup plan...! Well well well...now I did not have any more excuses with me...so I thought whatever be it, I will now just give it a go...what worse can happen !
I went there and saw over 20 people there, mostly couples (well it was supposed to be SALSA :) ). I don't think it did much to calm my nerves. But then having my colleague as the instructor helped a little for sure. Also it was somewhat soothing to find there I was not the only one out there with 'two left feet'... ;)
So I started with the basic steps and after a few initial hiccups, I started getting some (if not all) of the steps...which made me feel nice actually :) And soon I kind of started enjoying (don't know if my partners felt the same or not though :) ). More than anything else, it was really relaxing and trying something new, actually after a pretty long time, was definitely a good feeling. Overall, I had a very nice time and another new experience added to my list of experiences in Norway - one which is surely worth remembering :)
Apart from everything else, I think this experience certainly taught/reminded me one thing - Do not hesitate from trying something new (I think I had forgotten this for quite sometime) just for the fear of failure. The experience might be great, good or not-so-good, but then, at least you gave it a shot ! So that's how it will be from now...and my old list of 'To-Do's' that somewhere got lost in the heap of 'Doing now' ... but I have just brushed it off and cleared the dust from it today. I will make sure that it does not just stay there anymore...I will keep my pen in my hand - ready to check item in the list, in due time...............
PS: I will check out if my colleague did click any picture when we were in the session, I will upload it here :)
Cheers,
Keep trying and discovering...
