Often when everyone is heads down working on things at our house someone in our family will randomly call out \u201cDANCE BREAK\u201d and everyone immediately stops whatever they are doing, stands up, and starts dancing in place for five seconds to our own beatboxing sounds \u2013 then everyone quickly sits right back down and keeps working as if nothing had just happened.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my favorite things that my family does because it has a way of bringing some joy into our day for those five seconds of our dance break.<\/p>\n
Given, if someone happened to be around our family when one of these random dance breaks busted out they would think we were all out of our minds, but they also can’t help but laugh out loud when they see us do it, which brings five seconds of joy into their lives as well! It\u2019s a win\/win for all! And once a person has been around us when we do it once, the next time they hear those words \u201cDance Break\u201d yelled out they can\u2019t help from joining in on the fun – it\u2019s like this involuntary response they can\u2019t control \u2013 they just gotta dance! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Look, life is stressful and crazy busy all the time for most of us \u2013 and most days we are all just working our guts out trying to get it all done and plowing right through our stress \u2013 but every once in a while in the most random moments you gotta try yelling out the words \u201cDANCE BREAK\u201d as loud as you can \u2013 then stand up and start dancing in place for five seconds to whatever beatbox sound you can muster up \u2013 then quickly sit back down and keep working as if it never happened. All it takes is doing it once or twice and before you know it you\u2019ll have everyone around you taking that dance break with you. And whether those people around you are dancing along too or just laughing at you for doing it – think of it like this, either way you’ll have brought yourself and them at least five seconds of JOY in the day.<\/p>\n
Now….DANCE BREAK!<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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