What is your price?

Sometimes it is easy to get the feeling that what goes around the tango scene is more entertaining, dramatic, funny, shocking, amusing, and often times more unbelievable but actually true than most bad TV soaps or headline stories we might see in our weekend tabloid newspapers.

OK! It could be said that the people involved are not the usual actors, celebrities, or the willing pundits who are looking for their 15 minutes of fame but nevertheless nobody can complain; because everyone involved is trying very hard; doing their very best!

The story lines are of course just as complicated and juicy. If anyone looks hard and long, and to stay around patiently then one begins to learn the who-is-who of our tango scene, and it will be just a matter of time when one may witness many of such story lines. They unfold right in front of one's eyes.

Like all other good story lines here one is guaranteed with any combinations of endless competitiveness, jealousy, envy, petty mindedness, mind-fucks, real fucks, hang-ups, cheating, drugs, alcohol abuse, betrayals, business espionage, plotting, ganging up, bullying, physical pains & torture, professional failures and triumphs, emotional meltdowns, nervous breakdowns, relationship mayhems, forbidden love affairs, unattainable love-contests, and many others. The casualties, the ones who have nothing to do with the main story lines; they are never the real tear-jerker causes and that is sadly despite their frequency and numbers.

We may feel sorry for the victims, and say to ourselves "they are often the innocents & the uninformed". Some may disagree and insist "this is not always true".

"At the end of the day, everyone pays a price which they can afford: they are all too willing to play the game!" This is what the game-keeper would say. The innocence is soon lost once the wheels turn and the game commences, the music plays, and the dance starts.

That is on the outside. Please walk this way! If you care to venture in you will see that this is life, "This is the tango". This is where pleasure and pain mix when emotions are naked, bare for all to see. The striking and stroking of egos; examinations of self perceptions, the delving into our own and others' fears, tasting the raw passion of our needs for 'creation', the realisation of one's own limits; mental & physical, challenging others to share theirs: shortcomings, to reciprocate and insist or to fight to reject the gifts of touch and intimacy without questioning the time or the place, living in some small moments where the rest of life can be thrown into abundance; expiring and commencing lives in those often lost chances existing only in the so very thin surface of time called 'now'.

This is life, this is the tango. What is the price you are willing to pay to enter the game and to play?


MilongaCat.
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