Do You Dance? Yes Or No?

​A friend asked me recently if I dance. Hearing that question felt like being shocked with a strong current of electricity, and I quickly responded, "trust me, you'd never want to see me dance!"

Why not, she asked.

Because there is little I suck at more than dancing, I told her.

She looked at me and then said, "the point of dancing isn't to be a good dancer, it's to dance."

Those words lingered.

The point of dancing isn't to be a good dancer, it's to dance....

I do wonder, how much of the good in life do we miss out on for fear we won't be good at that something? How much good in life do we miss out on because we think the point of everything we do is to BE good at it?

I think about all the TikTok dance videos that pop up in my feeds. All clearly well choreographed, practiced, shared to showcase just how good one is at dancing.

I love watching people do things they are good at, it's inspiring, but having so many platforms available for us to see all the best of the good, does it inhibit us from tackling things we might enjoy, or that might be good for us, because we know we can never live up to TikTok?

I was a runner once. I still dabble in it from time to time 😊- but at my peak, if you ever wanted to find me in a race, you were well served to look to the back of the pack.

I ran a lot. Sometimes very far. But never very good, at least not as far as the awards ceremonies were concerned.

But running was good to me. It was good FOR me. It added something meaningful to my life that was missing when my life was missing meaning. Never once did I do it because I thought I'd one day be good at it, I always did it because I thought I might one day be healed.

Maybe we miss out on a lot of healing in life because we are waiting to be good at life.

Maybe we miss out on a lot of happiness in life because we're afraid we're going to fail at the things that might indeed make us feel happy when we're doing them.

Maybe dancing just to dance would make us happy; maybe happy and healing share a dance floor from time to time?

The world has plenty of people showcasing the things they are good at. Maybe the world needs a few more people showcasing things they do just because they CAN do them.

Do you dance?

It's a simple yes or no question.

Maybe we overthink the simple out of it too much.

Yes or no.

Just say yes.