I HAD A BAD DAY TODAY UNTIL I KNEW PURPOSE.

 

I heard from an ex-friend today and it really threw me off.  My ex-friend and I just ended and I had not heard from him in eleven months.  Yes! It almost was a year.

Of course for those eleven months, I wondered if I ever saw him again, what I will say to him.  Well...I didn't say anything that I was planning on saying.  I just wanted to know how he was doing.

Can you tell that I was hurt by him?

He was doing just fine and his few words to me actually put a realization up float.

Of course the realization only came toward the end of the day.

It was in the elementary school teaching dance.

I was teaching about forty students.  They were all attentive and they were dancing very well.  One of my students finally jumped about three feet off the ground (you should have seen his face, he now believes of doing anything) they all recited the meaning of a dance movement called releve.  The meaning is "to rise."  They all recited my quote, "Anything worth anything is HARD work."  Our dance class theme today was "determined."  I asked the class, what does determined mean?  A student raised his hand and said: "it means DON’T GIVE UP."

BY THE WAY, THE PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH TRYING TO CUT FUNDS FOR THE ARTS. STEP INTO MY DANCE CLASS AND TELL ME THAT THE ARTS ARE NOT CHANGING THE WORLD. THE WORLD DOES CHANGE WITH CHILDREN. INSTILL THE ARTS IN A CHILD. INSTILL HOPE. WITH HOPE, THEY COULD DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES.

My ex-friends few words popped into my mind.  He said don’t' every change. You showed me what happiness is in life so don't ever change.  Little did he know, I have not been exactly happy for awhile.

You know there are some people in this world that you just connect with.  He is that to me.  He knows me better than anyone.  But some people are just not supposed to be together or maybe we just choose not to be. Who knows?  My ex-friend and I will always connect and it ends there.  Just a connection!  That connection came back today in the right moment.  It reminded me into who I am.

Yea! You will think after all my growth that I did not need to be reminded. But I did.

I was full of tears and teaching dance at the elementary school.  Those children uplifted me today and I took a DEEP breath.  IN that moment, I knew of my purpose.  This is my purpose.  I am a dancer but most importantly a teacher. 

After teaching at the elementary school, I continued teaching on to my performance company and choreographed a beautiful dance work to "Jars of Heart."

Just because life happens, I may not hear from my ex-friend again but he helped for today.

I had a bad day today until I knew purpose.

My purpose. My happiness.