you can try, little dove

yesterday i was talking with 2 old friends from ballet and we were discussing choreo and various nutcracker roles and i said something along the lines of oh i think the artistic director just liked me bc i was skinny…like i wasn’t any good at ballet. and my friends both gave me the strangest looks and were like…um…yes, you were good? and then they just sat there and watched me process in real time how skewed my teenaged self-image was lmao. it was just a small moment in a long conversation but. friends who hold memories from when you were young are so important. and it was so fun catching up with them and they are so smart and funny and kind and it’s such a treat to reconnect :’)