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Something got me thinking during my dance class today.
At the beginning of class, before we'd really started dancing, my teacher mentioned this girl who went to my dance school a while back but stopped once she left for college. Apparently she was really, really talented at ballet and she was good enough to have made it as a professional ballet dancer, and everyone had thought she was going to.
But she didn't, and my teacher said that when she talked to her recently, the reason she gave was that while she liked dancing, it wasn't something that she wanted to do her whole life and she certainly didn't want to make a career out of it.
My teacher was saying that she should have become a professional dancer, because she had the talent and it shouldn't be wasted, that it made her mad. I thought, but she didn't want to. So what kind of life would that be? Doing something you don't want to do just because you have the ability to do it well and everyone expects you to? That wouldn't be a happy life. I don't think anyone should live their life according to other people's expectations.
Everyone other person in my class was agreeing and saying that they hated when someone ignored talent like that. One person said it was selfish and everyone even agreed to that. I seemed to be the only person who thought that this girl should be allowed to do whatever she wants with her life.
I can understand being mad at the idea someone not using their natural talent, I can understand wanting them to go on and be amazing at it, but I don't think you can call a person selfish for doing what makes them happy instead of the thing they're talented at. You can't force anyone to be something they don't want to be, it will just make them unhappy in the end.
I don't know. I don't think I'm wrong about this. But hearing so many people disagree with me about makes me sad.
At the beginning of class, before we'd really started dancing, my teacher mentioned this girl who went to my dance school a while back but stopped once she left for college. Apparently she was really, really talented at ballet and she was good enough to have made it as a professional ballet dancer, and everyone had thought she was going to.
But she didn't, and my teacher said that when she talked to her recently, the reason she gave was that while she liked dancing, it wasn't something that she wanted to do her whole life and she certainly didn't want to make a career out of it.
My teacher was saying that she should have become a professional dancer, because she had the talent and it shouldn't be wasted, that it made her mad. I thought, but she didn't want to. So what kind of life would that be? Doing something you don't want to do just because you have the ability to do it well and everyone expects you to? That wouldn't be a happy life. I don't think anyone should live their life according to other people's expectations.
Everyone other person in my class was agreeing and saying that they hated when someone ignored talent like that. One person said it was selfish and everyone even agreed to that. I seemed to be the only person who thought that this girl should be allowed to do whatever she wants with her life.
I can understand being mad at the idea someone not using their natural talent, I can understand wanting them to go on and be amazing at it, but I don't think you can call a person selfish for doing what makes them happy instead of the thing they're talented at. You can't force anyone to be something they don't want to be, it will just make them unhappy in the end.
I don't know. I don't think I'm wrong about this. But hearing so many people disagree with me about makes me sad.