Have you ever danced with anyone while you've been in a bad mood? I have. Most people I know have. I've danced with people who've been in a bad mood. It's never a good idea. But what do you do? Going and cooling off and calming down and chilling out will just take too much time. Tango is meant to be the part of the week that reduces our stress levels, if we can't relax during that then what hope is there?
The worst is when you're in a bad mood because of the person you're dancing with. Mutual politeness might prevent it being mentioned, but she's wound him up by dragging him out for a dance when he was desperately trying to get a glass of water, or he's wound her up by standing in front of her just at the moment she was about to successfully get a nod from the man she's been attempting to dance with all evening.
In all these cases, we're probably dancing with a good friend who has temporarily annoyed us.
We'll get over it.
But it's a pretty sad experience, being party to a grumpy dance. They're another thing you get better at avoiding and preventing. And if not avoiding or preventing, at least recovering from.
Counting to ten is an old technique for keeping calm in the face of aggravation and provocation.
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