Alicia, spirited thirty-something and journalist, "Dance, this inexhaustible source of pleasure"


What is your real pleasure of the day?

Every day, I join one or more friends. We love to get together, and the simple fact of getting together, I feel that my face lights up, I smile, that's a real pleasure! With them, we share a common passion: dance.
So we talk about it, we show each other videos, we chat … and if we don't dance, we see each other just to go for a drink, and the pleasure is the same!

And in a day, what are the small moments of pleasure that you manage to capture?

Take a day off, when I find myself alone at home. I sit down, I listen to my music … It's a real source of pleasure, because I love being at home. Right now, what I'm really enjoying is logging in and taking online classes. I try yoga, Pilates. But THE thing I savor is this moment when I start dancing, at home, without anyone looking at me, just the pleasure of movement in line with the music.
And then I have to confess to you a passion, a little hidden pleasure: watching videos of American YouTubers who put on makeup or their hair, even if I am not going to reproduce their gestures at all. It develops my imagination, I find myself dreaming, it's very silly and I love it!

In fact, your pleasure is being with yourself?

Yes, quite simply, finding myself in front of myself, I admit, is a source of pleasure, I know how to entertain myself, enjoy these solo moments without any problem!
During confinement, for example, I tested Marmiton's online recipes and started baking cakes. It was the discovery of a new little simple treat, because I also really enjoyed eating them. I posed in front of a good video, a slice of cake dipped in a Pearl of Milk (a cute sin), and I reveled in this agreement.

Do you have a message to get across to invite everyone to savor these little pleasures in life?

Well, we can find a source of pleasure in any new gesture. So, this cake story that I managed to make during confinement proved to me that the pleasure was everywhere, and especially where we do not necessarily expect it. Succeeding in baking cakes, I am very proud of it!
The moments of pleasure, every day, we must learn to identify them everywhere, in a memory that reaches us, a good smell, a flavor …