PARAMESWARI D / O
KUNNASEGARAN Class 4A1( 2013)
A DANCE OF PERSEVERANCE
A love of dance, a dislocated dream … How I carried on dancing.
What is perseverance? Perseverance is the ability to go on when things seem hopeless. It is also about a measure of success, or at least how much sacrifice one is willing to make in the name of success. As students, our goals and directions dictate our personal success. We need perseverance to help us attain personal success. Perseverance is thus the ability to forge ahead despite obstacles that threaten to undermine all efforts to succeed.
Here is a story of how I faced an obstacle and forged ahead to keep myself up. On the Second of June 2012, our school put up an amazing musical named‘ West Side Story’. We had two shows, one in the afternoon and another in the evening. Halfway during the finale dance in the matinee show, my knee dislocated and I fell right on the stage in front of everyone. At that point of time, I could feel my heart racing and I felt rather disappointed with myself. I could feel everyone’ s eyes on me, filled with worry and concern. My teacher ran in to help me up. I could not bear to walk out of the stage in the middle of a dance. I decided to hold on to the pain until I completed the dance. The lights faded, the curtains closed and I fell to the floor, my eyes filled with tears. Everyone rushed off to take their dinner and to prepare for the next show. The teachers, however, came to check on me. My family rushed up to the stage to check on my knee. They were telling me to skip the evening show, to go home and rest but I refused. To be honest, I was sure that staying with my friends and teachers would make me feel better. I stayed, we did the evening show and it was wonderful.
I went through much pain and I was quite disappointed with myself as I could not dance as well as I could. My dislocated knee was an obstacle to every dance move I tried to do. Even though I went through so much of pain, I did it for all my friends and teachers. Throughout the second show I had my friends holding my hand to give me support when I walked. They stayed with me and made sure that I had a friend who carried me just to make me sit. I had a friend who made sure I was not going through too much pain and I had the whole team to cheer me on. Not to forget, I had my teachers who were helping me out throughout the entire show.
A few months later, I went for an appointment at the hospital only to learn that both my knees had dislocated. I have been learning Dance for the past twelve years and now, because of my knee injury, I have to stop all dance lessons until my knees recover. Dancing has always been a big part of my life and now, my knees are an obstacle to me. I know that I will carry on dancing soon as my knees will eventually get better. It will soon become a reality to dance again.
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