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Freestyle Your Life Like a B-Boy
Life has a rhythm. Can You Catch the Beat?
Life has a rhythm and a flow. And as energy moves and transforms from one state to another, can you catch the beat?
We won’t if we are too rigid, formal, and narrow in our vision.
If we want to get into the flow, we make room for creativity and spontaneity. Otherwise, we stagnate, and nothing good can live in stagnant waters.
Though I didn’t know it then, I learned an important life lesson about movement, freedom, and flow in my seventh-grade Physical Education class.
You see, I never really learned how to square dance. I’m not too sad about it. But I learned a life lesson despite it. It happened during my seventh-grade year, and while contemplating another year older, it came back to me…
A B-boy Couldn’t Find His Flow
“Man, this is stupid,” Zachariah said.
Everyone in our 7th grade P.E. and Health class mumbled with him. Mrs. Simpson, our physical education and health teacher, was teaching us to square dance, and most of us weren’t getting it.
“Well, you have to learn because we have an assembly program at the end of the six weeks, and all seventh-graders will have to participate. It’s done every year,” She said.
