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The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers. It is to find the right question. — Peter Drucker
I took a simple step; my knee cracked and bent sideways. When I fell on it, it got back in place, and I attempted to get up. I couldn’t.
Before pain completely overtook my brain, I heard a wave of gasps going through the audience.
From the ages of 14 till 18, I was a hip hop dancer. I was good too. In 2015, a bit after I graduated high school, a bit after I got rejected from all universities, on a silly gig in front of a hundred people, I fell and broke my meniscus. When they did the surgery, it turned out it was more than just the meniscus, but I’ve forgotten the details.
A year later, our dance group was to take part in the World Hip Hop Dance Championship in Germany. I was cautiously going back to dancing at the time, but my trainers wanted me to be a part of the team to go to the championship. They thought it would be good for me after the year I had.
And I totally let them down. About a month into rehearsal, I gave up.
Dancing is one thing. Training for a world championship — a whole other. We danced 8 hours a day. I was…