No, this is not a love story.
Yes, my heart broke because I was in love and wasn’t allowed
to be with it.
My love was dancing!!! I loved to dance and participated a
lot in extra-curricular activities during school and college days.
So this one time I was in class 9 and we had to throw best
of luck party to our seniors, i.e. class 10 students. So I along with my
classmates decided the song, the costume and other stuff. We asked other
section’s students too if they wanted to participate with us, they refused. So
we took permission from our teachers and started practicing.
It was already 2 days with practicing, suddenly students
from other section came to us with a teacher accusing us that these “A section”
students haven’t asked them out about the participation.
Why did I quoted A section thing- our school had Ability
section i.e. the A section wherein students scoring 75% and above were kept.
So, we all were taken aback and the teacher told us that she
would decide who will participate and who will not. I was upset since accuse
came from one of my friends from other section. So this teacher asked us to
dance, we all started off and I being perturbed a little more couldn’t follow
steps. So clearly this teacher pulled me out and said, “people will laugh if
they will see you dancing”!!
My heart broke-the first time!! I hid my tears went to
washroom and cried there. My friends told this teacher that I was a constant
participant and she being new to school doesn’t know this but she was not
willing to let me participate.
I went back to my class, my eyes swollen and the teacher who
was in class asked me what happened, I told him everything! He said, that
teacher is new probably she doesn’t know about you let me talk to her. I firmly
said I don’t want to participate anymore!! He was sad too because he knew how
much I loved to dance!! He tried consoling me but I was angry and didn’t want
to participate at all.
After this incidence whenever I was asked to participate I used
to avoid it since those words started ringing in my ears.
My school changed and there too I didn’t participate in
anything! I came to college, I didn’t participate but then in second year one
of my school friends who was in my college encouraged me as she knew what
happened in past. She told me move on and let bygones be bygones!! All thanks
to her and I was back on track participating in dancing, plays and more.
Why I wrote this? We restrict ourselves or stop our
potentials to grow by listening to others. Things that made me happy I stopped
doing that for a long time!! I am not a dancer or an actor but I enjoy doing
these things which is important.
So a simple message to all, do what you love(ethic things
okay) and not stop if someone tries to stop you!!
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