Ordinarily, as a kid there is always going to be someone in your life that you would consider a role model, someone you strive to be exactly like when you grow up. Whether this person was an everyday person in your life or if it were a celebrity you watched on television. It would be devastating to find out they weren't who you genuinely thought they were. I started dancing when I was three, but when I turned six I moved to a new studio. Consequently, I met someone who I would consider one of the biggest role models in my life here, Ms. Kelsey. When I was little I wanted to be an exact replica of her when I grew up. Dancing was my passion and it was my escape from reality, but as I started to become older, I started to gain a new perspective on her and realize that she was not as admirable as I had thought she was. When I turned fourteen she had completely changed my perspective on dance and on her. Going to dance practice was aggravating and Presented it, in fact a great deal of days I would come home bawling my eyes out due to the one person I looked up to the most. Ms.Kelsey began to cyber bully me and degrade me as a dancer, which eventually shaped the character I portray today. Wake up, head to school, quickly eat a snack, then scramble to dance practice for five hours. This was my schedule every other day for eight …show more content…
Kelsey realized that I wasn't as close to her as some other dancers in the studio, I started to get singled out. Some days I would be ignored the whole class, other days I would recieve texts from my friends to check my social media to observe multiple posts directed towards me, degrading me as a person and a dancer. Eventually, Ms. Kelsey ended up giving everyone in a dance a solo but me. As a dancer, that hurts. Being the only one without a solo is humiliating. What amplified these occurrences so much more though, is the fact that all these actions were being portrayed from a woman whom I had looked up to so