Dancing Is Cool

Have you ever gotten the urge to just start dancing? Maybe you have a cool song stuck in your head, or it's playing through your headphones, or you just feel the spirit moving you. How often do you do it? I basically never see people just randomly break out into dance.

I don't really blame them, though. Dancing looks silly. People are moving their bodies, almost as though they are trying to say something, but there is no message. It's just strange flagellations. To dance spontaneously would be to warrant the stares and ridicule of all onlookers and passers-by.

However, everybody loves dancing. They love doing it themselves and they love watching it happen - it just needs to be under the right circumstances. Dancing is ok when multiple people are doing it at the same time. No dancing looks silly when a group of people are all doing the same dance moves. And when dancing is choreographed, practiced, and then performed, it is stunning, awe-inspiring, and makes people wish they could do it themselves.

It's strange the way a single activity is embarrassing in one scenario and mesmerizing in another. I think writing is no different. When you look at yourself as an insignificant nothing, writing is a process by which you expose yourself for all others to judge and criticize you. Well, that's actually true. The difference is, when you lack self-confidence, you assume everybody judges you negatively and criticizes you harshly. But when you do have confidence, you don't care what other people have to say.

When people say they love your work, smile and say thank you. When people try to make you feel bad, smile and tell them "haters gonna hate."