Tango
2014|第一次跳tango是在罗兹的国际学生之夜,算是学校组织的一个社交舞会,最开始我以为我喜欢的那个哈萨克小哥也会去。对于刚刚到波兰的我来说,认识新的朋友非常重要,但是这个舞蹈很奇怪,最后那么多的学生去,这么多年过去了,我发现只有我一个人留下了。什么原因呢,可能是罗兹温馨美好的tango氛围?可能是家一样的感觉?所以,归根到底,tango是一个双向选择,不单是你选择tango,tango也是在选择你。
在澳洲读书之后开始正式地学习tango,融入了本地的community,悉尼的tango社群知道她是个学生,所以对她非常友好,给了很多帮助,让她无缝融入本地生活,一起去练习,一起吃雪糕,一起见证朋友的怀孕宝宝,也认识了生命里面很多的朋友。
后来,她去了首尔跳舞,那是2016年的冬天,尝试了一个晚上只跳了3个tanda的折磨;2024年她又去了首尔,尝试了一个晚上都在舞池的快乐;快乐和折磨居然是如此的相近,又如此相似地在同一个人身上呈现,宇宙可能想让她知道,痛苦会来,痛苦也会走,快乐会来,快乐也会走,it’s just passing through.
2018年,她在tango里面陷入了恋爱,这个事情让她第一次从家庭的业力里面看到了曙光,看见了人生的另外一种可能性。爱,居然是这样的感觉,好好奇啊。而爱和恐惧的撕扯,让她在关系里面寸步难行,撕心裂肺。这么多年过去,回头看看,这是好事,正是因为痛苦过大,正是因为难以自拔,所以她的自我才小心翼翼地慢慢蜕变出来。毕竟在过去的25年里面,她都是教科书一般的乖乖女,别人家的孩子模版;只有她自己内心知道,i am just so sick of it,爱让她有机会把那些所有的sickness全部吐出来。
2023年初,她离开了一段感情,离开了一个工作,背个包就去阿根廷了。这个经历其实蛮特别的,不是说阿根廷是地球上距离中国最远的国家,或者一个女生自己去多么勇敢,布宜诺斯艾利斯的舞会有多棒,或者是高质量的约会体验。而是这些年那个小小的我,萌芽出来的我,终于在万古冰川的神秘力量加持下,长出了心!这个心啊,它让那个成年后不断换国家不断换城市的xiaoxiao在漂泊中,终于找到了扎根的地方,那个根,不在任何一个地方或者是房子或者是家庭,不在任何一个人身上,那个锚点,在她自己身上,那个锚点就是她的心,有了这个锚点,她可以更加自由的体验这生命的美好和宇宙的神奇经历。
而这一切,没有tango,我是没有办法成长到现在的样子的。在这个旅途里面,它给我丰富的情感体验,嫉妒,焦虑,恐惧,开心,狂喜,淡然,遗弃 and more;我在这个旅途里面也变化很大,舞会,练习,上课,提升,比赛,拿到名次。而一切的一切,居然源自于2014年那个偶然的,想要尝试去恋爱的一次舞会邀约。宇宙的复杂性就在于此,你永远都猜不到哪一个小小的行为可以让一个人的生命发生如此大的变化。
I would say from 20-30, tango plays a big part of my life, it’s my teacher, how to embrace, how to hold your core, how to walk gracefully, how to just to present as your pure self, how to love people as how they are not what you expect, as in tango you can never lie. 原来,教我如何长大的,如何认识我自己的,如何创造你的生活(舞步)的,不是我的父母,是tango, it helps me to know who I am and connect with myself with 100% honesty. 我从来没有意识到这有多重要直到我现在在书写的这一刻,be honest to yourself, even tho it’s not what you “want” or “expect”, be honest to life, flow with it, open all your heart and soul, commit yourself to every tanda you dance with, commit yourself fully to all life experiences that offer you, and always trust the river will just go right.
therefore, I guess Xiao’s story with tango comes to an end at the current stage, it offers her with lots of friendship coming with sincere connection; it brought Xiao to a world I would never ever explored by all other means; it presents Xiao what does it mean by purely living at the current moment, how deep life could create, how strong emotions human could generate. what’s more important is, she knows it’s an illusion and she didn’t stay inside the illusion, she made a decision to leave this illusion and where next? I have no idea, but I am very confident she will figure out, as she always does.
coming to 30s, I think I have grow myself up from a previous system, I am coming to build more connection with universe, less ego, less “WANT” and surrender more. in this stage, I am a yogi and life learner, carving for quantum physics, neuroscience, and Buddhism. where this is leading to? l am super curious.
but does it means I am gonna leave tango? not gonna dance anymore? of course not, it was a big part of my life, it’s just not a priority anymore. life changes, priorities changes, what what I learnt from tango will always be in the softest spot in my heart, and will never disappear for sure. and I know it’s always there for me.
as tango, as life.