positing a question: success

I'm off doing other things, but here's a rumination that's not about anything going on.

I saw this movie, Shall We Dance. The American remake version. Where some guy who has a high powered career and a wife and kids and "the perfect life" but he starts sneaking around taking dance lessons. It looks to the wife like he's having an affair and there's some plot about that.

The guy though, really is just dancing, and buying dancing stuff, and not fucking the dance instructor.

The wife finds out about it when the guy's making arrangements to participate in the dance contest. The wife sees him dancing and he's so good that she can't hold him back from doing this.

What if he'd sucked at it?

Seriously.

Are people only allowed to have hobbies if they're good at them? Doesn't that make it like working when you're obliged to succeed?