Long story short, I went to an EDM dance at an Anime convention during the weekend and saw this Asian girl who was sitting by herself the whole time. I have always been a shy, timid person, but my group brought my energy up and helped me let loose. I was hesitating the whole time and thought back to the countless seddit posts, Based Zeus videos, and finally applied the 3 second rule.

This is exactly how it went:

Me: Excuse me

Girl: Yes

Me: You wanna dance?

Girl: (I had no idea what she said, but I just assumed she said no)

Me: Ahh okay, it's fine haha

It was super hard for me to hear in that loud rave. But other than that, I was happy the whole night because I got out of my comfort zone and battled the anxiety of dancing in front of people. Danced in the middle of a dance circle multiple times that night.