Last year on my birthday you wouldn't have been able to catch me dancing…ever! I did not dance, I hated it and was convinced that I would never be persuaded to like it. The truth is that I did actually enjoy dancing I was just caught up on what other people were thinking of my lack of dancing skills…as if people have nothing better to do than to sit and stair at me.
About a month after my birthday we all made our way to training camp where everybody danced non-stop! Every time that I turned around we were having yet another dance party for some seemingly unknown reason. All that was known was that there was music, people, screaming, and jumping up and down. I hated it so much, but by the end of the week I was ready to start dancing. Though I was dancing and having a good time with it, I was very reserved about it. I was trying to push myself, but I was still so concerned with everybody else.
It has now been 8 full months into my world race and something incredible has happened, and I just can't stop dancing!! Last night was the last night of our month 8 debrief, so we celebrated my birthday with the best dance party that I have been apart of in, well, my whole life! Our hostel had a restaurant that overlooks the Nile River and we went and danced our hearts out! It was so hot and sweaty that all I wanted to do was leave and take a shower, but we pressed on and danced some more!
I won't lie, for one split second I thought that I didn't want to dance; but then I got over myself real quick! I'm so glad that I did, because my squad has crazy awesome dance moves and I most definitely would hate to miss out on that good time!
So what is the thing that you want to do, but you are too concerned with what others are thinking? Find that thing and go do it! Have fun, laugh, get your groove thing on….whatever it is….go do it!!
