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So the days are longer and our bodies older as we pass that designated tipping point from the end of one year to the start of a new one. I have my usual resolutions, many of which look remarkably similar to previous ones.

So what's different about this year?

Dance.

Thanks to the marvel of the Internet, dance is at our fingertips. Clear enough space in your office, and Google some YouTube beats that force you to move. I have found some '80s funk, saved on my bookmarks, that no matter how tired I am, no matter how busy or distracted, I can point and click and suddenly find myself moving.

You don't need to change to gym clothes. You don't need to leave the house. You don't have to have a single bone of rhythm in your entire body. You even can download disco, and nobody will know.

What I like most is that I am not constrained to any steps or styles, religion or politics. I can stretch any point or work muscles that the gyms often ignore. Next thing I know, 30 minutes have passed.

What is even more remarkable, as the past few weeks have gone by, is that I am dancing like I did in my younger days; my old-man dancing is shedding its skin. Not that my kids would agree with this assessment. But again, that's the beauty of an office with a door.

Times are hard, or so I've heard. It seems everybody wants change. Even revolution. Whether reformation or transformation, it has got to start inside. Get up!

Remember when we said we were going to change the world? Turns out we were young and naive. Revolution is no territory for the inexperience of youth. Nor is it fertile for out-of-shape rheumatic pragmatists who know better and lack the stamina and flexibility to move mountains anyway.

That crazy socialist Emma Goldman once said, "No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the means used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the purposes to be achieved."

To paraphrase the thought: If we want freedom in America, we best free up our knees and hips. You want free markets? Learn to move freely in the bodies you have.

Our spiritual hearts are clogged. The cholesterol of the nation is perpetuated by forces over which we have little control. Washington and Atlanta are awash in trans-fat politicians, lobbyists and junk-food issues served in bytes of scant nutrition. It is a noble endeavor to work toward the changes we feel we need in leadership. However, the rigidity of our spines is manifested in the rigidity of our paradigm.

Twist. Jump. Bend. To Goldman is attributed the line, "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution," though she likely never said it exactly like that. I'd say if we're not able to dance about the changes we want, it may be we are repeating the same binary oppositional slavery that has made us all so lazy in mind and spirit. Music has a way of loosening that junk.

Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." I read that to say that we can't wait for a new world before we start dancing; it is the dancing that will bring in a new world. And that is an inside job.

There are mountains to be moved. To be sure, some of us will move them to the left while others push them back to the right. That's probably a good thing, and what makes our country so dynamic. But we really need a song in our heart so we can do this with some harmony.

Nobody's watching. Get in shape in the New Year. It doesn't have to be a chore. The difference between work and play is often a bass line and a beat. Not one song. Not one way of dancing. Thirty minutes a day, close the door to the world and sweat your prayers.

• Chris Young is an undergraduate in biochemical engineering at the University of Georgia. He and his wife live in Madison County. They have four grown daughters.

Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, January 01, 2010

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