7 years ago I was diagnosed with a knee condition called Osgood Schlatter’s Disease. It basically is a condition that causes your growth plate to not fuse correctly and consequently I now have a piece of bone floating around beneath my patellar tendon. As a dancer since the age of 8 where I was tricked into going into a ballet class I thought that this was career ending. When I found this out a month or so ago, immediately my mind was filled with all the “what ifs” and “if onlys”. If I had just taken advantage of that experience a little bit more! Or if I had pushed myself a bit more at that point. The fact is as a society as a whole we are SOOOOOOO lazy and we procrastinate with everything. This includes our ideas about love too. We feel like we don’t need to use our talents and gifts to show love today because what’s the point? It isn’t convenient now… I’ll love you later when I feel like it is OK! Well you never know when that time might never occur again. And who wants to be stuck with the thought of “If only I had loved them a little bit more”.
So my challenge for you tumblr-verse is to seize the time you have. Use your gifts and talents to the greatest extent to love people and lend them that helping hand they need, because you never know when you might not be able to help them.
Well fortunately for me the story has a relatively positive ending. After 6 X-rays, an MRI, and multiple knee specialists I will dance again and can have surgery when I elect to. But for now I plan on expressing my love to people, both through my actions and my dance, whenever possible for as long as I humanly can! :-)