A Quiet Living Room
 
For what seemed like forever, our living room was a dance hall.  Special occasions and average days got equal billing.  The only requirement was a few pair of little feet and some loud music. 
 
I could come home from work, turn on the stereo and start a party.  Wife2Me could buy a new CD, throw it in the CD player and everyone would dance until they were sweaty.  On New Year's Eve, all you had to do was turn up the volume on the television while Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve was on and you got an instant celebration.  Even a rainy Saturday afternoon could turn into a full-scale blowout if someone simply turned on some music. 
 
There was swing dancing, disco dancing, crazy-nonsense-dancing, punk-rock-jumping-up-and-down dancing, square dancing, break dancing, the Tango, run-around-until-your-lips-turn-blue dancing and ballroom dancing.
 
Today they're 18, (almost) 16 and 14 years old.  Slow dancing is reserved for girlfriends and boyfriends, disco is for "losers" and no one wants to run around until their lips turn blue.  Nowadays, we only move the living room furniture to vacuum or look for lost cell phones.
 
Would we appreciate things more at the time they were happening if we realized they wouldn't last forever?  I would like to think so.  And, on rainy Saturday afternoons, I wish there was still dancing in our living room.
 

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Thanks for making me feel all sad and melancholy.

SmallWorld - 11:55 AM - Jul. 7, 2008

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