Right inside the doors to the hall, the dance scrapbooks were displayed, containing years of recital photos and memories that were good, bad, and everything in between. As I flipped through the pages, reminding my sister of the numbers we remembered seeing her in at recitals past, I heard some mothers of friends behind me remark at all of the time and money thrown away since she wouldn't be continuing to pursue the art she loved. "What a waste," they said. It got me thinking.
If you don't pursue dance after high school... Was it all a waste? Were the dollars and minutes and miles all for naught like these mothers seem to believe?
I can't buy it.
Dance is a passion. It is part of a person and that person will forevermore, at least at some point in their life, have been a dancer simply because they danced. It teaches you discipline and self motivation and makes you feel as though you are part of something bigger than yourself. It fills your soul and satisfies you in a way nothing else can. To have found a passion is never a waste. To have dedicated time and money to something that brings you joy, teaches you who you are, and makes you a better person will never be a waste.
Whether you end up being a dancer or a dance teacher or a doctor, lawyer, librarian, waitress, contractor, chemist, whatever it is you will have learned something by being a dancer that carries over into these professions. How can that possibly be a waste?
I figured with the time of year, plenty of dancers must be dealing with similar emotions/situations and it should be addressed.
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