Hi sweety. This is me. Talking to you again like some sort of bipolar psycho.
Sunday was the end of many things. It was the end of Oschool recital, something that you have worked really really hard for, admist a short stint in IMH and a small but nonetheless dramatic suicidal episode. Little girl, I’m proud of you, and that would probably be the most eloquent sentence I can come up with right now as I am typing this around noon and my system still hasnt injest enough caffeine to come up with any je ne ce quoi-resque quality into my writing.
It was also the end of weekly trainings, the end of sleeping 3 hours every wednesday and the end of the many fun but sometimes awkward moments among new people because you are sometimes socially inept like that. You, or rather, me will try to remember all these wonderful memories for as long as I can until the next recital which I can hopefully join because you are going to do your part time degree next year and god knows if you would have any time to spare.
You kinda like, bagged 2 awards dude, and until now, it hasnt really hit you in the head ( or anywhere else for that matter). It feels fucking unreal and you and I both know that being the dramatic little shit that you are there was a high possibility that you would start brawling and crying or do something seriously anti-social like that. The truth is, you didnt feel anything at all. No joy, no surprise no nothing. This is seriously bothering. I am not sure if its because the whole winning awards thing hasnt hit you in the head yet or you just kinda like refuse to believe that it happened to someone as infinitsimal in the dance world as you.
I think its the latter. ( and no, I dont know why you refuse to believe it either.)
You felt the high though. That magic in the air on stage and the roaring of the crowd and that explosion of adrenaline. That is the absolute essence of life right there and even though you didnt manage to get back that joy you had on stage last year, it was still a blast. You love the stage now. ( or at least the RP Stage. holy shizzles but it was huge. Almost as big as my ass.)
What you really really love about the recital, however is how dancers support dancers- Even if they do not know each other. You love how everybody cheered like crazy for every single item that went up on stage where dancers laid their hearts out for that short 3 minutes or so. You love how dancers say “jia you!~” randomly to other dancers who are about to go on stage when they dont even know each other’s names. You love how everybody is fighting for the same dream together as one big ass family.
This isnt the end of a love story as you thought it was a few weeks ago. This is just the very beginning and my god its starting to look good.
Continue to work hard baby girl. We are approaching the third year of your dance life in a few months time and hopefully it would bring many more milestones to come.
Love,
me.