Confronting my two left feet
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I’ve always been the shy type. The type who will remain pressed to the wall at a dance event, or who will pick the seat up the back. Talking to strangers for some reason terrifies me, and results in my voice turning into a pained squawk. Sometimes I find it hard to make eye contact, or to smile at someone who smiles at me.
Obviously, being this painfully shy has a crippling effect on what you can get out of life, and on what you can achieve or do. After all, who wants to be sitting at home while everyone else is out having the time of their lives? I’d never wanted that for myself, but unfortunately it seemed that that’s what had happened.
Until my friend dragged me along to dance classes. I wasn’t quite kicking and screaming at the thought of it, but I wasn’t far off. Driving there in her car, I was shaking like a leaf, and all I could think about was how I couldn’t dance, and how I would humiliate myself.
But the class, a beginner’s tango class, was nothing of the sort. The teachers were friendly and interested in us, and took the time to show us how to get through each step if ever we were having any trouble. Partner dancing means just that—you have to dance with a partner—and during a class, it’s compulsory to rotate between partners. Dancing with a variety of people is meant to be great for your technique and for your dancing, and it also has the added benefit of making you meet new people and, gasp, talk to them.
While it took me a little while to come out of my shell, I soon found myself enjoying my tango classes more and more. I loved the way they made me feel beautiful, and the fact that every person I danced with was friendly and personable. It didn’t take long until I progressed on to intermediate classes, and then on to other styles of dance. Dancing, I found, helped me in so many ways. Not only did I develop the ability to move about on the dance floor, but I opened up and made a whole bunch of new friends, too.
One last thing, I have just had a look at the site design for this human resource software webpage and I feel I should say in my web trained opinion it is really good-looking. I was having a rather grueling time actually finding any information however, which made me deliberate what is more significant, charm or usability? Why is it that some sites aren�t actually able to do both?