This morning I got my breath taken away. No, it wasn’t because of my morning jogging session (although, at some points the jog did leave me figuratively breathless). The culprit was dance. To be precise, it was the LXD (Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) performance in TED.
In this video I saw how human beings could move moves I never even imagined anatomically possible. They were krumping, breaking, popping and locking and probably doing every other single dance style that exists. And they moved with passion..oh the passion.. you can just feel the shivers running down your spine. Their dancing was inspired.
Dancing with a purpose
This inspired act can only be achieved when done with a higher purpose in mind. As an old story goes;
On a road somewhere, three men were making bricks. They were asked what they were doing.
One said, “I earn a living”
One said, “I make bricks”
One said, “I help build castles”
They have a very profound philosophical concept behind their dance moves. One of them said that the dancing was done in “another level”. One says that every move he does has a purpose. Another creates a ball of energy and manipulates it to assist him in his dance. One even has the aspiration to make people question the reality of what their seeing when he dances. The group as a whole believes that dance can have a transformative effect on the world. That dance can change the world!
Out there, there are people doing ordinary things extraordinarily for a purpose bigger than themselves. They can take the simplest act of moving their body and turn it into a show of art that lifts everyone’s spirits. They have made the world a better place to live in.
They are building castles…let’s do the same.
