Broken foot - what it means for ballerina 2

Now, after I broke my foot, each day is an adventure. Everything is new, everything is different. People, places, things I hear, things people say to each other, how I act. No, it is not worse or better, it is just different. I can't help to notice that I am changed. I have changed a lot, because of recent experience which actually was like the culmination of my past. And now time has come to recover - body and mind. Yes, I knew that this time - off plaster - will be the worst, but I had time -7 weeks to prepare myself for this period. It will not be easy and of course it will take time. Full recovery - 6 months - this is what doctors say. And I am ok with that. I have to patient with myself, first time in my life no matter if I want to or not - I have to be patient with myself. Is it the hardest thing to do? Yes, but I try and I succeed and being surprised how patient I can be with myself.

Dance doesn't judge -people do

"Dance has no nationality, has no age, belongs to no-one.
Dance to everyone is - the same - pure, transitory, just, adamant."

I wrote that on the wall of my ballet school some time ago and I keep it in my heart as well. Some students ask me why I think dance is just as they think it is not. Yet then, when I explain them that they look at my words through somebodies else words about their dancing or others people dancing and that I didn't mean people are just...then they start to see what I meant. Dance doesn't judge...we do, we always did and we will.

Broken foot - what it means for a ballerina?

To be honest - yes, I think it it a big thing for a dancer to have broken foot, to actually have any kind of severe injury. The emotions take over, and at the beginning we really don't know what to do, what to think until we step down from being dancer to being human, then we see things differently, but that is in only in case when a broken foot is really just a broken foot or any injury is just curable and a temporary thing. And I am not being dramatic, I just would like others to understand that it is big deal every time a dancer or even regular person has an injury that makes this person to go to hospital and think that "a not so very good thing" happened and may still happen.