Dance floor predictions

I want to one day tell my daughter the story of how I met her mother and @empress-eremmy asked a couple weeks ago about it. Just in case something ever happens the blockchain is a good way to preserve important memories and stories for those to come.

It was complicated in many ways but to keep it simple I will start with: Dancing.

I asked my wife if I could tell the story of how we met and she asked, "What will you say? How you stared at me until I was forced to dance with you or the stupid 'lines' you used to try and pick me up?"

Note: I have never used a line. And even if I did and they were stupid, here we are many years later, married with a daughter so, how stupid were they?

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I remember the first time I saw her on the dance floor. She is a brilliant dancer, ballroom background so her body position is strong and follow very sensitive. She was dancing with an LA salsa teacher with a penchant for speed and spins and there was not a missed step, dropped arm or overturn. Precision and beauty.

She is right about one thing, I may have stared a little, she is gorgeous.

When we danced for the first time, I felt like I was going to break her bird-like arms with my clumsiness. As said, she is a very light follow, and my signals are mixed at best so she was probably a little confused.

I remember the first time I held her hand and how her skin felt, the shine of her eyes in the club lights and how small she is when I put my arms on her waist. Dancing with her feels like out of the movies when the outer lights dim and the spotlight falls onto the stars in the middle. There is no other detail relevant than her.

I think that is where it happened, and why we are together.

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We have danced in nearly every city we have visited. Salsa in Barcelona, Bachata in Brussels and Kizomba in Tallinn. We have danced at parties and weddings, on beaches, in town squares and in parks late at night. When we secretly married, we danced alone in the darkness of a closed restaurant that overlooked the city.

For us, dancing has been a constant thread that has run through our relationship from the start and we will continue to dance until dust. This is the first time since we have been together that I am going to be away without her with me and it is going to be very strange, more so because of our daughter too.

Yesterday when I was sitting with our daughter in a swing at the park, she was happily chatting away and when I told her I would be going away for a little while for work, she got off my lap, walked to the other side of the park, sat down on a piece of equipment and slowly rocked back and forth pointedly ignoring me. This morning when my wife was trying to tell her as they walked to daycare, she fell silent and ignored her.

Because I must leave so early in the morning I will have to say the goodbyes when I put her to sleep. Knowing that I am going means that I am likely going to feel it but she isn't going to care at all at that point, when she will care is the next morning when she asks why I am not at breakfast. The next day she might ask the same but on the third morning, me not being here will be normal for her. It is interesting how quickly a child adapts to a situation.

What is funny is that first night I met her mother I knew I was going to marry her, not in some love-struck passing fancy kind of way, I knew it. After that night on the dance floor, I told a good friend of mine that I had met my wife and she laughed as if I was joking. When I told my wife that we were going to be married and have a daughter, she laughed and thought I was joking also and indicated, there was no way. My wife is wrong a lot.

It is going to be an interesting week in so many ways for my family and I kind of hope that while I am away, they might even miss me a little too. There is a lot riding on Steem for us and this trip is a test in some ways to see how real we want it to become. Meeting people face to face and listening to what they have to say can be a good indicator as to what the future might look like, but even if there will be no marriage proposals, there will likely be some stupid things said.

Life threads through so many different weaves and no one can really say what the future holds but I like the way that things come together, random events, chance meetings and long-shot odds that draw together to create lifetimes. There are opportunities for a better life everywhere, whether on a dance floor or at a tech gathering, we just have to keep our eyes open and be willing to invest ourselves into them and perhaps, have a little faith things will turn out for the best.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]