Link: UnaGitanaDeLaIndia – Danger… on the dance floor...

There comes a point in every dancer’s life where the thought that they might never be able to dance again flashes in front of their eyes in BIG BOLD NEON COLOURS!!!!!!!!!!

Yep… happened to me last night…

Another disaster night at Zenzi… and this time I have a very REAL reason for being down-right depressed..

There
I was dancing with a beginner… telling him the count and making him
follow the beat… and of course, the beginner that he was.. he could
not be bothered to save me from the girl behind me (remember girls, its
ALWAYS the guy’s fault)… and BAM! her 3 inch high heel dived straight
at my left ankle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah…..YEEPPPP… this is where the neon lights flashed in front of my eyes…

The rest is all a blur… me grabbing a seat and collapsing into
it.. my friends surrounding me.. someone taking my shoe off, someone
wiping the tears off my face.. someone clutching my hand coz I wudnt
let go of it… someone getting me ice and wrapping it in a cloth
around the ankle…

Phew..  (they don’t call me "drama queen" for no reason)..

But all this time, just one thought running in my mind – BUT I WANNA DANCE MORE!!!!

Oh and 2nd thought (and not the most pleasant one) – Will I ever dance again!?!?!?!?!

(This last one is more of a question mark in your head and you keep
saying "YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YOU WILL" to try and calm
yourself… the effect is quite the reverse though.. )

Coming back to life in general – What really happens when it is
someone else’s fault and your moment/day/month/year/life is ruined
forever?  We all know that shit happens… So, can you blame that
person? They didnt, after all, do it on purpose..

Put yourself in their shoes (but please dont use them like they did) and think for yourself..

The girl whose shoe hit me was very very apologetic but in my
depressed state of mind her aplogies barely meant anything… I was too
depressed and angry.  But then I think, what must have been going
through her head?

Hmm.

Blank.

I have no idea.

Remorse? Guilt? or plain Indifference?  If it’s either of the first
2, I’d hate to be in her position… but if it’s the 3rd, I’m getting
my gun out right now..

Coz if there’s one pet peeve  I have, it’s people who don’t apologise for their mistakes..

On a more serious note, imagine all those people who have lost the
ability to do something they loved and were passionate about FOREVER…

OH. MY. GOD.

I can’t even think about it.. it’s too heartbreaking.

I could have cried last night, partly coz of the pain and partly coz
I was unable to dance! So I can’t even imagine what all those people
must go through.

I, of course, will hopefully be back on the dance floor in a few
days.. but this incident has just made me wonder and realise.. that
this line from a movie I once saw (Pedro Almodovar’s "Hable con ella" -
1 of the best movies I’ve ever seen in my life) holds so true.. the
line goes something like this -

"The most painful thing in this life is to say goodbye to someone/something you still love."

I have never forgotten that line. Let’s hope it never applies to any of us