29 December 2005
salsa
sometimes i wonder what it would feel like to just let go. to only focus on what is right in front of you. to just trust your instincts, the natural ones, not the ones society teaches you. i watched a salsa lesson and that is what it looked like: the people who were good had this natural ability to just let go, to be comfortable in their bodies and to just see what happened. the people who were uncomfortable, were unsure of how to move, they knew that people were watching them, they cared about the consequences. sometimes i want to forget about the consequences.
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Seems to me like you're talking about two different things though. I'm not sure thinking about consequences equates to never following your natural instincts. Do you?
This way you don't know who I am.
when you follow your instincts you allow yourself to disregard what the consequnece may by because many times your instinct is not the "right" or proper thing to do. i think you can only act instinctually when you are not thinking about the consequences. maybe i am wrong. it is two to one right now.
Hmmm. Well part of me intuitively sees your dichotomy ... between reason and passion, will and instinct. I tend to view things very holistically in some sense. In other words, the dichotomy makes sense to me if you look at things on a decision by decision basis. But, character is made up of habits, (vices and virtues so to speak), and character can be formed and developed through conscious decisions taking into account consequences. But, character can also allow a person to naturally follow instinct or intuition ... in those moments, it is one's character that forms the basis of their naturally following their instinct; thus there is no weighing of consequences (that was done a long time ago).
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