In any difficult situation, or just in moments of despondency, a person has invisible allies. BeautyHack columnist Tatyana Yakimova talks about the most true thing - about rhythm.
In any difficult situation or just in moments of despondency, a person has invisible allies. I want to tell you about the most true. About rhythm.
I felt the rhythm quite early - when I first heard the melody of Paul Mauriat's orchestra for the program "In the world of animals". She was called Alonette and she was insanely beautiful! I listened with bated breath, and something bright and proud was born in my childish soul. I imagined how I was dancing in the clouds, flying with cranes, making fantastic pirouettes - either sinking closer to the ground, then rapidly soaring upward.
(To tell the truth, I still do this, and these are some of the best moments of my life).
A few days later I was on the bus, where it was very crowded and stuffy.
I was pushed by indifferent tired people, stepping on my feet, looking at me like an empty space. I wanted to cry and not live.
But then I remembered Alonette: "Tadadadadadad-dadadadadaaa" - and perked up. There were no players then, but the melody sounded in me for many years.
And by the way. For the last ten years I have been loyal to the metro, because it also has a rhythm. Quite life-affirming to himself. It's a little mystic, a little physics, a little music, rather strange, but real.
Then the rhythm of my life expanded its boundaries. At school we were asked to read the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Poe. I had Zenkevich's translation, and when I got to the lines: “Silk alarming rustle / In purple curtains, curtains …” - I was just dumbfounded. It was incredible beauty. And something even stronger and more powerful is rhythm.
I walked the streets and repeated these words to myself. Earlier it seemed to me: walking alone means that nobody needs it. And here, on the contrary: you walk to a rhythm that is available only to you. Your step is light and swift, because you know the secret, and this secret supports you. It cannot be shared, it is only yours.
Then we had a jogging competition - guess who won?
The one who walked a lot and quickly without any training, that is, Tanechka Yakimova.
On my first player I recorded the Nautilus album.
The second is Linda. And the coolest Tatu song "They won't catch us."
And everything that ABBA has.
I ignored rhythms with anxious and aggressive nature and persisted in looking for life-affirming, positive, calm, or invigorating.
Then I fell in love with movies with dancing. All. From "Carnival" and "Disco Dancer" to the strange Italian painting "Unusual Destiny", the protagonist of which was a copy of John Travolta and learned to dance for a girl.
At the dawn of disco, I wanted not so much to dance as to walk and dance. Like in musicals. And at home, and on the way to work, and at parties. And even in the corridors of the office.
I also often remember one of the best films of the late USSR - "Sorry" with Natalia Andreichenko and Igor Kostolevsky. There, the heroine Andreichenko, learning about her husband's betrayal, turns on the tape recorder and dances furiously. Excellent life hack! Since then, I have experienced two betrayals (who didn’t worry about them ?!) and chose the second between depression and dance.
No, I didn't become a dancer. But she found an ally, more reliable than whom there is no one.
Rhythm is not only and not so much music and dance, it is easy to catch it in poetry, films, conversation, sex … and sports games and competitions, of course.
"A regular rhythm is immanently inherent in man as a living organism; it manifests itself in the perception of space and time, in such processes as heartbeat and breathing, the change of day and night, the alternation of seasons."
Rhythm is the pulse of life, the feeling of its fullness.
Just think about it in difficult times.
