Jazz it up!

Have you ever encountered a person who probably is nice but comes across as intimidating and reserved? That's me. I'm not the type of person that likes to put work into building a relationship that isn't going to last. Many times I meet people and a year or two later they tell me how intimidating I was when they first met me. I must give off a false vibe of confidence that comes across as watch out or I'll take you out.

When I started my most recent job I met someone who gave me that same impression and after three years we have become friends (that's about an average length of friendship building time for me). This friend is also a jazzercize instructor. I went to my first official jazzercize class with her a couple of days ago. I was amazed to watch her. This often reserved person at our job just absolutely transformed while doing her class. It seemed as though she truly loved what she was doing. The stress washed away from her face. It was amazing. She worked me harder than I've worked in a long time. I hopped and kicked and crunched and skipped for an hour and my muscles thanked me for every minute of it. (Of course the next day was a different story.) The music is new, fun and energetic. The choreography is relatively easy to pick up on even if you aren't a dancer. The best part of the choreography is that it's repeated so many times that you have plenty of time to learn the moves.

As I sat there trying to keep up with moves I hadn't done since I was 10 I was also thinking how I needed to find something that did the same thing to my face. I mean, I've developed wrinkle lines between my eyes from my lack of stress management. I've been thinking for two days now and come up with nothing so far. So until I come up with something that makes me that happy, I think I will keep going to jazzercize. Maybe it will inspire me at some point and I will find something to do that completely wipes away my stress.