Dancing to YOUR Song.

  Picture this. You're at a wedding, and your favorite song starts playing through the speakers. It's not your favorite song to just listen to and chill. No, this song is your dancing song. The song you sing in the shower to and dance around to while you're supposedly cleaning the house. But as soon as you're about to get up and own that dance floor, you stop yourself and sit back down. Why is that?

  More reasons than not, you don't go out and dance to that song because you're afraid of what others think. What if you embarrass yourself in front of your friends? Or even worse, total strangers? What if you do a dance move wrong? What if you fall when spinning and hurt yourself? What will they think of you then? 

  We've all come across this fear at least once in our lives. A fear of being judged. A fear of being an outcast because you were yourself. A fear of being rejected because you like old Shakespeare books instead of the trendy novels that everyone else your age is reading. Fear of not finding any friends because they know your taste in music is different than what most people like to listen to. All of these different emotions and feelings can build up inside of us when we're around other people and we hold ourselves back because we're afraid others won't like what they see.

   But I have one thing to say to you: DON'T HOLD BACK.

If there's anything I can tell you right now, is that whether or not you're the girl who prefers gym shorts over pretty dresses, or if you can't dance to save your life, or if you're the guy who thinks it's cooler to do crafts with his sister instead of go shoot hoops, it really doesn't matter. You're amazing just the way you are, and you don't need to hide or change yourself for anybody.

   I'm not just sharing this for your benefit, but I'm also trying to teach myself the same thing. I've been afraid to be myself. I'm always afraid of saying the wrong things in crowds, or even to friends and I'll just embarrass myself. We've all been there. But we don't have to be there forever.
   If you find yourself struggling with this too much and it frustrates you, take it to God. Ask Him to help you to be more of your silly self and less of your afraid self. He's capable of bringing the dead back to life, so I'm more than positive that He can help you out there. ;)

   In the end, being yourself is so much better than being someone you're not. It's better than the person who is holding back their talents or intellect because of what they think others think. Turns out, more reasons than not, people will accept you for your weird quirks. Your friends will think you're crazy I'm sure, but the real friends will embrace you and dance crazy with you! The right guy will find your athletic style really rad and won't want you to be someone you're not. That girl is gonna find it so cute that you want to spend time with your sister instead of do sports.
   So start dancing to YOUR song. Let loose, be a little crazy, laugh a bunch, and enjoy being your silly self. You'll thank yourself for it later.


Becca    ~xoxo~