How did Salsa change your life?

[squirrel]

Are you better off ever since you started dancing Salsa? Or is your life much worse...?

Mine is better... I am happier, more relaxed... friendlier and livelier... :) not that I wasn't before... but now I can accept people and things more easily... :)

What about you?

[borikenSalsero]

I was a loner before salsa, still am to some extent, but when in a club I'm a social butterfly, smiling, laughing, yapping away... Plus I found out that I had a huge passionate side...

[jenn]

im definitely much friendlier and open after i started dancing salsa!
...better... I am happier, more relaxed... friendlier and livelier... totally agree!

plus, its given me a boost of confidence i didnt have before. :oops:

[ann]

salsa really keeps me out of some trouble, and now i have a verb in my life.

[squirrel]

ann... what do you mean by "Salsa keeps me out of trouble"? It always get me in trouble... :)

[ann]

squirrel: it's like this, i can dance with about 20 guys in one night, but i never go home with any of them. the only kind of trouble i get into is with shopping. i love the clothes!

[MacMoto]

It always get me in trouble... :)
But your life is still better with salsa and you are happier, right? :wink: A salser@'s life is full of contradictions...

Me, my marriage's over partly because of salsa and my finance doesn't look too healthy either (divorce is an expensive business, and all those shoes, clothes and door charges on top of it don't help either :(), but yes, despite all that, salsa has made me a happier person. I've re-discovered a side of me that I forgot about, I'm more open to people and I feel younger.

[squirrel]

:( Sorry to hear about your divorce, MacMoto... maybe finding a dancing SO would be easier for you next time...
Salsa gets me in trouble always :) but it's fun!

[SDsalsaguy]

Heya MacMoto, sorry to hear that your marriage is over, especially in part because of salsa. At the same time though, if you have found something in salsa that makes you happier as a person, that should not be overlooked and, ideally, is something that an SO would support or at least understand.

Best wishes in these trying times... and always.

[borikenSalsero]

I'm sorry to hear about your situation MacMoto, best wishes on your new endevours... and a long lasting salsa happiness that will root your heart to a joyous lifetime... :D

[MacMoto]

Thanks, guys.
Yes, it's hard and depressing, and I'm glad I've got salsa to lift my spirits.

[tj]

BS (Before Salsa): I mostly stayed in the same social circles – my friends that I’ve known for years and their friends plus friends from work. The problem is that these social circles are mostly limited. New people rarely enter into these social circles.

With salsa, I am able to expand that social network to lots of new people. And even though I think I have more friends who have quit salsa than have continued, I will still keep in touch with them. (I went to Las Vegas for a bachelor party for one of them just this past weekend, in fact.)

Also, it’s much easier for me to make new friends in new cities. BS, my other hobbies aren’t quite as social, and I wouldn’t make as close friends as I do with salsa.

One of my biggest obstacles in having moved 2x in the past 2 years, is starting over socially. With salsa, that transition is much smoother, and it’s not as traumatic leaving all my friends behind.

And finally, with salsa, I have found a way to comfortably flirt with strangers. I won’t continue if it’s not mutual, of course, and I will just dance friendly instead. But it’s nicer than merely trying to chat someone up at a bar.