Mindless driving

I used to drive. I had a habit of looking ahead and never concentrated on the here and now. One day while looking for a carpark, I did my usual routine: eyes forward, looking ahead, trying to spot a park and I very nearly hit a pedestrian after not stopping at the pedestrian crossing. It was then that I realised that I applied a very similiar philosophy to life. Always looking forward for a park...for a better park..for a closer and more convenient park. I felt that was in fact a very limited way of living.

I never appreciated the here and now, and still I struggle to learn to appreciate the people and opportunities that are here and now. So I've tried to force myself to slow down. I now take the bus. The only problem now is that I've swung 180 degrees to the extreme and i feel like I am now sitting on a bus waiting. Waiting for what, I'm not sure but as I wait I am watching the world pass by me in a blur.

The word that springs to mind to describe how I feel is "lukewarm". A wise man once told me "never to be lukewarm, be hot or cold, but never lukewarm. Lukewarm's boring." I'm neither hot nor cold, up nor down....here nor there. I'm just waiting....waiting for a flutter.

Complexions

I checked out Complexions last night and boy did I get a dose of dance at its best!

Complexions Contemporary Ballet hails from New York and is the love-child of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. Passionate artists from various disciplines, backgrounds and cultures are brought together not only to dance but to push the boundaries of creativity and inject a revived sense of energy and fun into our lives. Most importantly, they do all this without ever abandoning the roots of classical ballet.

The company takes advantage of various multi-media to appeal to this day and age and to push through innovation but to my relief, never quite manages to leave their dialogue with the past. The perfect example of this was the final act - an Ode to my all time favourite artist, Nina Simone. The score was awesome and the dancing was invigorating, inspirational and goose-bumply. It started with "My baby just cares for me" and morphed into "Sinnerman" before slowing it right down to "Blue Indigo" and then upping it again with a full remix of her songs. It was so beautiful I nearly cried.

The dancers were amazing, their bodies were beautiful and perfectly sculpted - the years of hard work is screamingly evident. But what I loved most about it was they had so much fun!! They loved every single moment of it and I could tell because I could smell their passion from where I was sitting and believe you me, I was a few rows back!

I highly recommend checking them out if they happen to be in your city or you happen to be in NYC.

Oh - and Desmond Richardson? Breathtakingly beautiful.

S.T.O.P

It's so easy in this world we live in now to forget the very thing that makes us human. So many expectations are imposed on us by those that surround us and by ourselves.

At times it seems a very cold world ruled by precedence, by logic, by rigid information, by rationale and a proven thought process.

No - there's no time for hard feelings, negative feelings or warm fuzzy feelings for that matter. In a world that doesn't want to know - we only have the luxury of feeling fine. No more, no less.

But we do feel. We feel.

We feel fine.