https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/phobias/ Recent content in Phobias on A Geek's Life Hugo en Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:08:11 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2010/12/13/swearing-off-dancing/ Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:08:11 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2010/12/13/swearing-off-dancing/ <p>The final lingering vestiges of self deceit died today. Against the incontrovertible evidence, I had remained hopeful that I had the ability to transcend my <a href="../2009/11/strictly-not-dancing/">well documented phobia</a> for dancing.  Sometime between <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFW_mkjV6Fg">Ose O Jesu</a> and some other Yoruba song which has escaped my memory, I realized that my rather feeble attempts at &lsquo;dancing&rsquo; - clapping rhythmically, nodding my head from time to time, and shuffling from side to side  - bore as much resemblance to dancing as a bee buzzing through the air bore to a fish swimming.. My sense of unease was worsened by the fact that it was a thanksgiving Sunday and we had to dance to the offering box. Interestingly, if the number of dancing worshippers was a significant sample of the larger community, then I am fighting a lost cause in refusing not learning to dance.</p>