Follow Your Dreams

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“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Transfixed, she stared intensely on the every movement of the fluid ballerinas as they flew like swans gracefully throughout the stage. Kelly did not leave her seat until the very last bow was taken and the curtain enveloped her very aspirations. As the piercing lights brought the audience back to reality Kelly quietly snaked her way through the crowed unnoticed, weaving toward the back door. As she took a breath before entering the crisp air she caught the eye of one of her role models, a dancer. She stood mesmerized to the spot as the ballerina shot her a quick smile and quickly disappeared. Kelly entered the outdoors with a sense of yearning. She felt the need to belong on that stage. She felt a need to call the stage her home.

Her dreams started as a young girl, an audience member ever inspired by the dancers in the Nutcracker play her parents had dragged her to. Filling the car ride back home with her enthusiasm, Kelly raved to her parents on her new found dreams of making it big as a ballerina. She begged her parents to allow her just one class, just to test out her talent. However, her parents being world-renowned doctors found no use in the silly prancing around and therefore refused Kelly’s waste of time on any such participation. Despite all of her argument, there was no room for discussion on such a “silly” topic. Thus, Kelly was left to twirl around the house and choreograph her own solos with help from online videos and TV shows. On most nights when her parents worked late Kelly was able to convince her babysitter to take a walk through town. Kelly played it off as if she wanted fresh air but secretly she loved to get a glance at the bal...

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...nce. I wanted to follow my childhood dream. I am sorry I went behind your back,” Kelly nervously stammered.

“You know what you did was not right. You went behind our backs and repeatedly lied to our faces. Kelly what if something had happened to you. We would never know where you were,” Kelly’s dad fumed.

“You broke our trust and your responsibility and it is going to take a while for you to prove that back. After your grounding you can return to your dance but until then you are going to be doing extra chores and studying.”

Following her parents to their car, Kelly didn’t mind her grounding all too much. Although she got in trouble, she felt that she had ultimately won since she finally chased her dreams. Thus, she reluctantly got into the car just as she had ten years ago however this time she was satisfied she had the courage to live up to her dreams.

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