Sunday scribbles #14: The power of music, and dancing.

So, yesterday was one of those days I try to minimize in my life. Why? Because of the main thing I did: absolutely nothing. Friday I worked on an event starting at 2 pm. My job was to be the right hand for the person who organised everything. Meaning you have to be everywhere at all times. Again, it has been a fun event to work at, but I was more exhausted afterwards than I would've thought. I got in bed at 3 am, managed to get 7 hours of sleep in, but still, I was really tired the day after the event. Probably because the quality of sleep I got, was way too low. I'm pretty sure that if I had an Oura ring to track my sleep, the app would suggest to cancel my plans for the day and first get some more sleep in. Since I hate the feeling of sleeping all day, I started my day with my regular morning routine: 15 minutes on the bike, followed by some stretching exercises and a cold shower. I was awake for like three hours, what a bummer that was. After watching Rings of Power, and having a friend visit for some fruit from our garden, I did the worst thing I could have done: lay on the couch. And yes, you guessed right on what happened next: I fell asleep. Waking up at around 6:30 pm I felt pretty lame. I hate sleeping during the day because it is just time wasted in my eyes. I promote adding moments of doing absolutely nothing, but not doing nothing all day. Except for the physical exhaustion, I wasn't in the right place mentally as well.. lack of motivation to actually do something. Until all of a sudden that changed. I turned on my tv, hopped to my browsing history on Youtube and put on "You are the happiest so dance and smile playlist" by the channel "music diaries".

Wow, just wow. Quite instantly I turned up the volume and felt my blood flowing through my veins. I just had to dance! And dancing on your own in your house is literally one of the best feelings in the world if you ask me. At first I thought that this was gonna be one of those weekends where I would have to do my best to find something to write about. I found no inspiration at all, until my dancing moment at home. All of a sudden while dancing it just clicked: I had to write about this feeling. So after about half an hour I got to my desk, turned on my laptop, and started to type this out. This won't be a very long post, but I just really wanted to share something about music, and specifically dancing. Music has a lot of power, I don't need to convince you about that. It has the power to evoke feelings and memories in just an instant. Today it has given me the motivation to get my lazy ass off the couch, actually do something and even genuinely make me like getting in action. I didn't feel obligated at all. It felt like turning on a motivation button and experiencing a burst of energy which lasts. I hope you also recognize this feeling where something, whatever it may be (except for harmful drugs maybe), gives you this high on life where you feel like screaming it from the rooftops. Remember I once said I had this list on my phone with my 'highs on life'? Well, dancing in my house was on that list, and today, I cannot highlight it enough how fucking awesome it is! I was writing this during that burst of energy and I still had too much energy to keep sitting here, and share how wonderful this feeling is. After all, nothing I say can adequately describe the feeling. So happy dancing y'all, and till next time!