You can dance if you want to....

..and it just goes to show you that any idea, no matter how silly or how small at the time....can lead to pretty great things (and a little dancing..)!
Matt Harding is a 31 one year old from Connecticut. He was big into video games and wanted to play and make them for the rest of his life. He was able to do just that at a fairly early age. So what was next? In 2003, Matt quit is job in Australia and used the money he had saved to travel around Asia. Making a website, kept him in touch with his family so that they could see where he was traveling to and what he was up to. A few months into his trip, while taking photos in Hanoi, a friend of Matt's gave him an idea. "Hey, why don't you stand over there and do that dance. I'll record it". Matt can't really dance...but he does do this one dance that looks kinda goofy. This idea turned out to be a GREAT idea.
A couple of years later, someone found the video online and passed it to someone else, who passed it to someone else...etc. Now Matt is almost famous. Known as "that guy who dances on the internet". His first video, caught the eye of the Stride gum company. They were interested in working with Matt to do a new video and wanted to fly him around the world to make it. This was another GREAT idea.
In 2006, Matt took a 6 month trip through 39 countries on all 7 continents. He danced a lot! This second video, brought Matt even more attention.
In 2007, Matt approached Stride gum with another idea. He realized that his bad dancing was not that um...exciting. But he thought that other people were much better at being bad at it. So this time, he wanted to travel around the world again, but this time, invite other people to come out and dance along with Matt. Stride liked it.
And this brings us to the video below. To me, the video shows that though we are all different, we are very much the same. Most of us want to be happy in life. Free and healthy in body and mind. Though, Matt has not reached epic stardom, he has made his mark in a very positive way. That in itself, is more enriching, then being rich, bathing in your money and not giving a damn about anyone else and likewise, no one giving a damn about you. I say, Matt - good for you and keep dancing up a storm!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.