Moira Hegyi

Oh my gosh I’m still pinching myself! New England Oireachtas Champ! I’m so thankful and blessed to have these crazy teachers in my life who constantly push me to dance better than my best. And to the best group of senior ladies and friends a girl could ask for, I’m so proud of each and every one of you. I couldn’t ask to take the stage with a better group of boss women.

Someone–Stephen King? Pretty sure I saw this in a Stephen King foreword–once said they’d like to say to a brain surgeon, “Boy, I’d love to do brain surgery someday.”

We treat “the ability to put words into a sentence” like it’s just the same as “the ability to form a coherent narrative that engenders a variety of emotions within the reader and puts them in a scene and shows them what they didn’t see before”.

And that’s like me drawing a stick figure and saying I’m an artist.

Writers are constantly devalued because everyone thinks they have a book in them and don’t realize the level of skill and commitment it takes to finish even a short story, much less a whole book. 

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Lower your risk for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome

Lower your risk of some cancers

Strengthen your bones and muscles

Improve your mental health and mood

Improve your ability to do daily activities and prevent falls, if you’re an older adult

Increase your chances of living longer

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It seems to me that Irish dancing has become more about changing to fit some mold than it is about being who you are as a dancer. I mean, look at all those fan page Instagram accounts for “famous” dancers. People are all over the place determined to be EXACTLY like that dancer. People who become role models feel like they have to change to fit that idealized version of them self because if they don’t they’ll be letting someone down. And people who look up to these role models feel like they have to change to be exactly like whoever it is they look up to. Nobody is allowed to just be them self anymore, and it makes me sad.

You are going to be horrified and embarrassed at some point by the shit you are doing now.

And you are going to wish with all your might you’d done more of it.  

You’re gonna wish you had more selfies, more photos, more videos being dumb with your friends.  You’re going to wish you’d had your hair even higher or your shoes even sparklier.  

Go.  Document the shit out of your ridiculous life.  Fuck trends but if you wanna be trendy, go all in.  Fuck in-groups and subcultures but if one sings to you, do it all.  Be exactly as cool or punk rock or goth or fandom or country or hardcore or hip hop or whatever, and don’t let anyone tell you differently.