sometimes i miss ballet so much that my heart aches and my chest hurts and i feel a knot rise up in my throat so big that i can only choke and choke and choke and try harder than anything not to cry, because i don’t want to remember what was. because as much as i loved it, it was never something i wanted to do as more than a hobby — i didn’t love it enough — and i was ready to let it go and move on.

but just because you let something go doesn’t mean you don’t miss it.

and there will always a part of me that is a dancer.

always.