I recently woke up to a notification from my Google photos about a video I made so many years ago. I tapped to watch and my goodness, the things I did. The video was a dance video I made for a dance challenge at the time. The very first and last dance challenge I ever partook in. Here's the back story.
That morning, I woke up to a text from my sister, who was a very serious dancer at the time. She said one of the people whom she looked up to on the dance space had posted a dance contest with a nice amount of money as cash prize.
She convinced me to make the video and judging from the fact that other people who participated were not too serious about the challenge, I stood a chance. The fact that she said I stood a chance unlocked something in me. Of course I thought about it for a while; the benefits that would come from the challenge and the cash prize too. Although I never wanted to be a professional dancer, I just thought this challenge would boost my non-existent social media career at the time, so I started practicing.
Luckily, the dance steps were simple and the song was easy to vibe to. I just needed to work on my body mechanics and timing. The major challenge I had at the time was aligning the dance video with the song because I shot the video separately. Imagine my video lagging three to five seconds behind the song? And I wanted to win a challenge?
When there's a will, there's a way
I sha kept at it. I continued making different videos, trying out different angles and whatnot. Now that I think about it, I was so determined, hehe.
Eventually, it all clicked. I made a video that blended well with the song and I was so happy. I sent the video to my sister who vetted it and said I could post it on a social media platform and tag the challenge coordinator. After posting this video, I started imagining the things I would do with that prize money. I imagined up to the point where this contest coordinator would acknowledge that I was indeed a great dancer and I deserved the award. Igwe you deserve the award sir. But nothing!
I waited for days and nothing still happened. After I did some findings, I realized that they had chosen winners and the coordinator basically made a post thanking everyone for their participation. Guess who wasn't among the winners? Me of course.
For a moment, I was sad because I had always prided myself on being an amazing dancer. This disappointment didn't put a halt to my indoor dancing but it set it in motion. These days, I can barely dance to save myself and to think I used to be a rising star :)
So yes, there's an embarrassing dance video of myself floating around the internet and I hope it remains hidden.
Images used belong to me and were taken with my mobile device except stated otherwise.