When I was 12 years old, I walked through the school hall and noticed a Ballet class in progress. I watched for a few minutes and thought, “I can do that.”
When I got home that day, I said to my parents that instead of gifts for birthday and Christmas I would like money for ballet classes. My parents obliged and I took to ballet like a duck to water.
I then did something groundbreaking in the strict convent school I attended; I managed to convince the nuns to let us dance in our leaving mass. Four of us did and it was beautiful. This set a precedent for other classes below us who continued the tradition.
I continued dancing by joining the teacher’s own dance school and danced in many shows, including performing with the London City Ballet Company. I then qualified as a ballet teacher and taught for many years in every spare bit of time I had outside of my full-time day job.
It had all start with the thought “I can do that.” And this thought has dropped may times over the years, spurring me onto new things and new endeavours.
Has this ever happened to you?
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