[Tango-L] No Subject - stats/personal responsibility

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Hello Doug (and everyone),

Welcome to a dance in which you'll never be fully satisfied
with how you dance.  With time, you'll suck less and less. 
Just enjoy the process, which is much more important than
the end result, anyway.  So what if you don't become the
next Miguel Zotto.

As for those who are negative constantly, I feel sorry for
them (and for their students!).  Their lives are so bad
that to feel good about themselves (or their dance) they
try to bring others down.  How sad is that!  But why should
their lives affect what you do with yours?  Don't let that
happen!  So, post away.

Plenty of people on this list find questions from newbies
to be interesting.  Sometimes they cause experienced
dancers/teachers to reevaluate long-held beliefs, explore
forgotten ideas, or expand their teaching/learning styles. 
And even if you do think "the cabaceo is stupid!", it can
still add insight to the issues many of us face in
educating and sharing the culture surrounding this dance.

Doug (and everyone), this is your list.  Help make it the
list you want it to be.  This may sound cold, but
ultimately, whatever fears/concerns you have about posting
to this list are yours to deal with and no one elses'. 
Likewise, put the responsibility of flaming where it
belongs - on the flamers.  Don't accept their issues as
your own.  Why should you compromise your learning tango
because of someone else's problem?

And something tells me that you're mature enough to handle
them, anyway.

Looking forward to your future posts.

Trini de Pittsburgh

--- doug at swingfusion.com wrote:

> I am dancer 12 years but only beginning Tango dancer (1
> year).  I am not
> great Tango dancer.  Although I read Tango-L list, I
> don't contribute to
> list.  It does not feel safe to do so.  Maybe I write a
> lot.  Maybe good
> ideas, maybe not.  I go to New York, or BsAs, or
> somewhere.  My dancing
> sucks.  Everything I write is discount and all ideas bad.
>  Maybe in 5 or 10
> years when I dance good, or maybe not good but good
> enough, I can write to
> Tango-L.  You think?
> 
>  
> 
> D.
> 


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