Where It All Started... A 29-year-old Girl Finally Landed on a Ballet Class!
On this year's World Ballet Day 2020, I might have more stories to tell about my ballet progress---one of my bucket lists that has come true last year. It's been a year and still going on and on. Well, as for my first post of '(Never) Late to Ballet', I can tell you that it is a lot of work, but ballet teaches me to 'lift myself up!'
At the time, there was another hashtag called #MenolakLupa (English: to reject forgetting) which was made to fight the government's actions in forgetting past injustice and unsolved political cases. I made a little twist with wordplay yet with almost the same sound bite in local language.
I was like, c'mon, Natalie Portman did Black Swan when she's older, gimme a chance to try at least.
During this one-year long process, I have learned a lot to listen to my body and accepting that I do have more things in me to fix, instead of just accepting and letting it be, not allowing the darkness and biased toxic positivity to hold me back from achieving my best version of myself. I'm in the process to engage with my whole body through the integration of movements---something that never pops in my head as I don't know how to integrate my mind and body altogether.
Maybe I won't go too far, but at least I'm trying my luck with it.
So this is it... #menolaktua for starting to do what I love with all I have, at the age of struggle, with never-ending lack of luck.
Cheers to more progress! Cheers to realizing what my body can do in ballet! Cheers to more blogposts for '(Never) Late to Ballet' series in here!