Come On Before We Crack

I suppose watching Luke and Drew dance in the video I put on this site the other day has me thinking about the importance of expression. I could not help but smile.

I’m not sure where they got it from but some people in certain religious circles frown on dancing. I think they feel dancing is a mating ritual.

Those people need to get a life.

The movie “Footloose” was about that very subject. Rev. Moore made it his mission to keep his town dance free. Thankfully the kids did not fall for Rev. Moore’s message. They danced anyway. They just had to express themselves.

“Cut loose, footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes. Please, Louise, pull me off my knees. Jack, get back, come on before we crack…”

I grew up going to sock hops after basketball games. We danced the night away in our socks on that gym floor. In high school, we also had dances from time to time but not nearly as often as we did in Reynolds when I was much younger. Dancing was definitely not a mating ritual to us. We were too young to mate.

But we sure did have a lot of fun.

When I went to college the dancing increased. There was a lot of dancing going on at the Lambda Chi house on Milledge Avenue in Athens Georgia. I have to admit those were some of the most fun times of my life.

There is something very therapeutic about being uninhibited enough to dance. It has to be good for one’s soul to be able to express yourself and not care what others think about how well you are doing it.

“Jack, get back, come on before we crack.”

As Lee Ann Womack’s song says, “And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance. I hope you dance. I hope you dance.”

You’ve probably seen this video before. If you have I have a feeling you will enjoy it again. I can tell by the hundreds of people who watched Luke and Drew’s video the past couple of days – a lot of people have some dancin’ in ‘em.

Enjoy.