A feeling I could never find everything

The steps before a stage

The feeling of nervousness creeps up

When the lights turn on and the music starts

The nerves don't fade immediately

However, as soon as you hear the build of the music

The clapping hands

And your teacher whistle your name

Everything else disappears, even the nerves

Suddenly you can be any character you want

A heartbroken lover

A girl with her friends

Someone fighting for their life

Suddenly your any place you want

A beach on Hawaii

The greatest city in the world

A place no even real

Every step feels closer to art

Arts and sports form one,

Becoming something you need a spark in your heart to feel

Then there’s the desire to destroy yourself

To gain this spark

A new trick, a new turn, a new leg

BAM!

One fail, falling to the floor

A bruise to the shoulder, one on the knee

Some days the pain is worse than others

It hurts to walk, it hurts to lay down a certain way

Yet, every time i'm asked

Would you ever quit

I laugh like its a joke because dance has become much more

A way to share every part of yourself

Making you completely vulnerable yet still cocooned in a blanket

When I laugh at their asks

They say I’m wasting my time

What I’m doing will never make me good

My body’s falling apart at a rate the will never see my through

I’ll never be able to dance for the Royal Ballet Academy

Or the Rockettes in Radio City

I’ll fail before I ever succeed 

Maybe that’s the point

Because I’m being laid bare every time I step out

Maybe I’m trying to do that

So even with injury I can still have the sport nothing else is like

I love my mother, my father

Dance is an entirely different kinda love

A love that everything is sacrifice for a gift that may not seem of value

But to a dancer means everything single thing

When I see myself in the mirror at the studio

A week from the stage

I know that I’m coming home

To the thing I’ll never love anything else like

With a pain so sweet, a success so melancholy 

A ticking time bomb

Where I could never stand to be around for so long

Yet never feel the feeling of love, pain, fear, and home

That’s why all my cards are on the table with dance

So I feel everything in bursts of what’s the best of it

Even if it will never be long enough

However, its better than the pain of not enough

Celebrities’ Parasocial relationships that they hold with fans are becoming more and more concerning by the day. Celebrities have always been used as idols. They’re something people want to learn about and they’re people that children look up to. It’s almost their job to share pieces of their life, however in recent years it’s gotten worse. The biggest example of this is Taylor Swifts relationship with her fans. She’s always been communicative with her fans through her music. Yet this lead some people to believe that they know everything about her relationships, her struggles about her life, and how she would react to certain things. However, the truth is we do not know any of these people personally. We do not have the right to make up harsh rumors and stories about a person in what your interpretation of a song is. Because the truth is, is that is not what music is for. Music is for us to be able to relate to it so we can use it to make it feel something. Not to feel for someone that we do not know and most likely never will know.

A-Abby

D-Dad

A-Hi

D- How’s you day

A- Boring but lets get to what we need to talk about

D- Colombia Riots, Right?

A-Don’t think your gonna let me go there in the first place

D-Wasn’t gonna let you go there’s anyways

A- Bro, you literally went to princeton

D-Exactly why your not going to colombia

A-Not the riots?

D- No but also the riots

A-What’s your opinion on them

D- I think that they need to be stoped like honestly its an ivy league school, they should be teaching

A-Yeah, but are the riots not expected coming from an NYC school

D- That’s NYU, not colombia which is literally an ivy league university

A- okay, but what do you think

D- Well, I think obviously that the reinstatement of education is important, probably the most. However, I think the protesters come from an uneducated place about the topic from things said online.

M-Mom

A-Abby

A- Thanks for talking with me today

M- Why wouldn’t I, I literally just drove you home from dance

A- Off topic, mom, AI, what are your opinions on AI

M- Like in schools or in general use

A- either

M- okay

A- also give it to me straight, dad took to long

M- okay, so when it comes to school, they definitely should be used to write essays and others thing. However, they could be used to make practices and can be helpful to teachers.

A-Agreed

M-When it comes to general use I think it can already be helpful, look at google, siri, alexa, etc. I do also think it could become negative in general use if we become to reliant one it

A- That’s, all I have to ask so we’re done.

M-Okay, bye!