I Dare You To Move!

We can sit at our computers, at our desks, in our gaming chairs, under a tree, at the dinner table, in a school, and do NOTHING! Absolutely NOTHING! I'm so beyond guilty of this. We post on Facebook and Twitter, "I'm sooo bored..." and we continue to sit. Why is this? Personally, I can come up with a million and one excuses. All completely legit. But even if they are legit, why should I let them create a wall that stops me from living life? Personally, my biggest wall is the fact that I can't drive yet, so I'm stuck at home...a lot. And all I've wanted to do is get out. Leave. Do something else. Anything else. My new term starts tomorrow, and I'm thinking "I just want to stay home." WHAT?! Why did that thought pass through my head?! I've wanted to leave this whole week! And now I want to STAY?!
This isn't school related, I happen to love school. It's because I know exactly what I'm going to do when I get there. I'm going to go to classes, stay in my shell, spend my free time in the library like a good little nerd and never talk to anyone besides my friends whom I've known for a good portion of my life. I know that I won't share the love of God in my actions because I'm too shy to do so. Because I think that people don't want to be bothered by some 18 year-old girl with strawberry nails (yes I painted them to look like strawberries). When, "I should say hi" goes though my mind and in a second I will think "they probably are busy and don't want to talk" or something of the like. I will do anything, make up any excuse to get out of doing something out of my comfort zone.
I'M TIRED OF IT! What about you? Are you like me? If so, I will pray that you will gain strength as I pray to gain strength. I'm sick and tired of being the quiet, writer, nerd type. You know? In my senior year of high school, I was voted "Miss Friendly." At least, I think it was senior year...it may have been junior year...But the year doesn't matter. What matters is what happened to me? My friendliness is gone! Those who are my friends, don't see that. But when I am surrounded by people I don't know, in a place which I'm not very confident in, I magically turn into a turtle! I will stay in my shell and never leave unless egged out with a treat of some kind. Usually that treat is a friend.
I happen to really like this animation group called GodLimations. They make online mini games and animations. Now, some of their stuff, is really umm, I'm gonna be nice and say "odd." But there is a video that they made called "Dare." This video is soooo inspiring! Now, I have to warn you, the animation isn't the best, but I happen to like it. It's got a quality to it that I particularly like.
Now here's what my speech teacher would call my "Call to action:" I dare you to move! I dare you to say hi to someone you don't know. I dare you to have a conversation with someone in your class whom you've never met. I dare you to show random acts of kindness just because you can. And most importantly, I dare MYSELF to do these things. Tomorrow is a day of new beginnings. It's the first school day while it's in the Spring season, which is Oregon, isn't much different than winter. It's the home run stretch for the seniors graduating this summer. And it is also the day which I will do my best to take down that wall brick by brick and spread the love of God to everyone I meet.
So I dare me to move. I dare you to move!

Here's that video I was talking about. Watch and enjoy! :)