Bendtner Bendtner, The Man Who Lives in His Dream — Episode 1
Humour. Fiction. Don’t Take it Seriously. Seriously!
Episode 1
Yoga is not the point. It might as well be ballet dancing. The point is stretching. Elongated muscles ease out Bendt’s mind and he feels ready to think of fresh ideas. As if a guitar string had been untangled, wound, tensed and tuned. Ready for the show!
The only reason it was yoga but not ballet for Bendt was because the latter might have meant a temptation to perform, an urge for acknowledgement from others. And Bendt mostly hated the ‘others’, people other than him. So yoga was a good solution.
He was stretching out this morning again after a long night of thinking. He lay on the floor with his legs aiming for the ceiling at 90 degrees. As each muscle spanning the back of his thigh elongated, jumbled up thoughts formed neat files in his head.
He concentrated on his knees, stretched his legs further upwards and smoothened out the ligaments under the knee cap. A few more notions unravelled which had been smothering his overworked grey cells. Then it was the ankles and the toes — joints most similar to ideas, Bendt believed. If you don’t let them be free, they swell up and make you immovable.