For as long as I can remember, I've been trying to avoid dancing.  When I was about 10 years old, there was a dance floor set up at Hampton Day.  Some DJ was playing the best of the best from Power 103.7 and Kara Nelson wanted me to dance with her.  It was at that moment that I developed an intense hatred and utter fear of dancing.  I realized that I had no rhythm and couldn't control how my body moved, much less coordinate it with some regular pattern of beats.  As I watched other people acting like idiots, I realized how much I didn't want to act like an idiot by dancing.  And so the story continued throughout my entire life.  In junior high, our school always had dances as part of an all-encompassing "activity night".  I remember going and sitting in the back, but just hating the idea of dancing.  [Some may remember that I danced to bands like Nirvana and Metallica, but it was more just moshing and jumping around.]  This pattern continued until I realized that girls like guys who dance.  So for one simple reason, I started to dance a little here and there.  I even asked girls to dances and formals.  But I still wasn't a fan of dancing.  This continued through high school proms and things like that.  When I got to college, I went to parties where there was dancing.  I participated, but I wasn't a big fan.  I went to a small school, so we even had formals and things like that.  When I started drinking, I danced a lot more and enjoyed it.  But hey guess what, you can enjoy anything when you're drinking.  Drinking helped me dance at bars, clubs, parties, and things like that for a few years.  But then I stopped drinking, so dancing ceased being fun.  And now I go to weddings, which are essentially the same thing as senior proms, except that they focus on a wedding ceremony instead of [insert focus of prom here].  As I was growing up and going to these different events that centered around dancing, I always figured that dancing would be phased out and my problems would be solved.  I never saw my parents dance, so I didn't think adults ever danced.  But now 10-15 years later, I'm still stuck in these situations where I'm forced to act like an idiot by erratically moving my body in conjunction with the beat of music, all the while people stare at me and mock me from their seats (because that's what I do).  And at every one of these events, I always see those people who go around and say "C'mon, get up and dance!" as they point and yell at me.  There's a very simple psychological reason why these people act the way they do:  they feel like idiots and they want everyone else to feel like an idiot too. #entertainment