Why you can dance, and why you cannot dance

Sometimes you see people dance effortlessly, carelessly

Children, drunk people and old people can dance. Sometimes, in-love people. And people who think (know) they are good.

Why? Because they don't care what people think about them, what people say about them, who will laugh at them. They just do it, for the sake of doing it. They feel it in their body, and they answer that call to move! It's very simple.

How do you dance? You just move! Listen to the music, feel it in your body, follow the beat/flow.

All babies and little children can dance. Most just lost that ability as they grow older.

Same applies to drawing/painting, making music and other artsy stuff.

Why you cannot dance?  

Because at some point in your life, someone tells you that you can't, or make you think that way, or you grew up got too self conscious about your self and your body to just let it move, and when you needed to be cool, and letting your body to just move wasn't cool.

Because at some point, people start to make you think that dancing has to be in a certain way, a certain steps, a certain style, attend a certain class, follow a certain teacher, be in a certain group, using a certain kind of music, confining you to these so-called standards, instead of allowing your personal style to be expressed.

Because, you haven't moved listening to a music since you were 3 years old, because people ask you to sit down and be quiet, or just follow what they do. Any skill unpolished is not surprisingly rusty. If the last time you actually tried to dance was during your kindergarten concert, don't be surprised if you still dance like a 5 year old. You're not untalented. You just didn't.