People in their 60s stick up on the idea that at their age, health is definitely wealth and therefore has to be cherished and accordingly guarded. Exactly. Not everyone gets the chance to age as he wishes. Waiting too long — the “someday” procrastination excuse — to live fully is extremely unsolid. Very little is needed to make an active happy life. Have some fun and do it in a zippier style. Appreciate small joys. Smile often. Become a brick house, physically fit, adrenalized and in shape. Begin with a few little changes in the humdrum, spaced out house chores and experience how these little changes can make a big impact.
At sixty, did you say we’re too old, too dumb to learn new things? There are always fresh ideas, newies — not necessarily AI technical brilliance — but some things that give us substantial motivation to yell about, on cloud nine, from the treetops, in chirpy triumph. Soon we’ll find it becomes impossible to turn away. We’re hooked.
Zumba. Feel the funk.
Get up. Step out of the house. Build up some good muscles. Get rid of the flab. Shape ourselves into some classy chassis, get rid of the ugly pot belly, do away with the Rubenesque tag.
We are not destined to be alone. In a culture characterized by advancing technology, and similarly, by lives of leisure scarcity, Zumba lets us stay socially connected, provide us an urban sedative against city chaos. Zumba, a global phenomenon that started in 1990 Colombia was, initially a traditional group workout and did not have the dancy upbeat-downbeat Latin-inspired salsa, merengue, and reggaeton pace that it has today.
Zumba is a lot of fun, actually, with a high visibility of zest in every musical beat, like those of children on a birthday party in a game of musical chairs as they joust over the seats in a state of great excitation — without a trace of inhibition, totally at leisure and loose ends — rousing us from our catatonia. We get quanked, of course, exhausted from all the Zumba squats, lunges, and arm movements, but it’s a feeling of lighthearted exhaustion. Remarkably, as we feel tired, we also burn calories and bring us back energized, right as rain.
Zumba sessions are happy times that convert into happy memories that will prick the curiosity of wide-eyed grandchildren about the happy times we danced on a Zumba moonbeam.
