Being 12, people go around thinking "Oh, look at that girl she must give her mother a hard time. Dating boys, wearing makeup, and constantly texting." But, I don't. I am a 12 year old girl who has her mom as her best friend, and is into things like meditation. I am a girl who can't stand when I see kissing and grinding at a school dance. Now reading this, your probably thinking: "Oh f this. She is gonna turn into the worst 13 year old because shes acting like shes so not like the normal teenager. But what keeps me from saying and doing what a normal teenage girl does, is a movement of hope--dance. Dance is something something that I can walk into and feel relaxed. Relaxed that I have people there that also aren't the normal teenager, that don't care if i'm not wearing a bra yet, and don't care that i don't own the top fashion lines and I'm not popular. This offers me a place to get transformed into being whatever I want to be. If I want to be a Spanish ballerina performing Don Quixote while doing my pirouettes, I will. Or, if I want to be the beautiful Giselle while doing my glissades, I will. I wish more teens could transform themselves into being what they are, not what someone else is.
The best person I can look for to transform is my dance teacher, Austin. Since I saw her perform, I will never forget the majestic butterfly that she was. She wasn't my dance teacher, I didn't see her as Austin. She was a butterfly. Every step she took she created a sentence for her story. And she created a butterfly who found the perfect place to fly.
