- I really wish that chocolate was it's own food group. And preferably on the bottom of the food pyramid. (I know they don't do the food pyramid anymore, but that's what I grew up with!)
- I just saw that Disney and Pixar announced "Finding Dory" - the sequel to "Finding Nemo"...no April Fool's here. You can read more about it here. So. kinda excited about that.
- Today was one of those days that you didn't expect to be a good one, but turned out to be! What a lovely surprise :)
- Today was a bad hair day. but that's good to have a bad hair day on a good day. Save the good hair days for bad ones. And it was still a great day, even with a bad hair day.
- I'm so grateful for my feet. Keep reading below for more on this subject.
I really am grateful for feet. I mean, we kinda use them a lot. And I just started dancing and we are really working on strength and initiation in our feet and toes. There is so much power there!
But I really didn't understand how grateful I was for my feet until recently. In mid-February, I had the lovely chance of experiencing a pretty bad jammed toe. It was my big toe, and it was pretty difficult. Believe me, your big toe has lots of responsibilities and I learned that over the next few weeks. Walking was different and dancing was...hard? (I wish my vocabulary was a little bigger...I'm working on it!) But I learned the difference between 'push-through-the-pain' pain and 'you-really-need-to-stop-and-just-let-your-foot-heal' pain; the line is still a little blurry, but I was figuring it out.
I was so grateful when I finally started to feel normal and walk normal and it was all fine and dandy.
Then I had the opportunity to attend a callback for a musical I auditioned for and part of it was a dancing call. I was so excited and I felt so good going into it! I had even mentioned earlier that week how much better my toe was. So, we started the dancing I felt like I was doing pretty well. Then, the choreographer taught a small jump. It was like a jump turn. I was a little confused about the footing, so in a free minute they gave us to go over the choreography ourselves, I asked my friend how to do the jump. She demonstrated and as I went to copy it, I totally landed wrong. Like you should land on the balls of your feet, NOT the side of your foot/ankle. oh man. Talk about painful. and stupid. Literally the first thoughts that went through my head; "Ouch, I'm SO DUMB! Why would I do that???"
obviously I didn't mean to.
But still- I was frustrated with myself. It took a few minutes for me to be able to put full weight on my foot, but I was at an audition! So I literally just shook it off and told myself it was just a little roll and it would be fine. It was still pretty painful, but the rest of the audition actually went really well!
As the callback went on, I was waiting to read some lines for the director, and I was sitting on the floor, examining my foot. My foot was getting more and more tender and I even noticed it was starting to bruise.
SIDE NOTE: I love bruises. I am very proud of my bruises and I think they look cool.
So, when it started bruising, I was actually kind of excited! Battle Wound!
but as the the day went on, I had to go perform in a recital and I went straight there from my callback and of course I had packed heels to perform in. When the recital started, my foot was hurting pretty bad. I started limping slightly to keep weight off of it as much as possible. When I performed it went well, but by the end of the recital, I could barely fit my foot in my shoe it was so swollen and painful.
So, I called my mom and told her 'yeah, I kind hurt my foot today...'. Literally minutes after I hung up the phone with her, my dad called me and told me I most likely sprained it and needed to start icing it fast.
Want to know how to spend a great a saturday night? Sit on your couch with you foot in an ice bath. glorious. But I had cookie dough and friends to help me out :) The icing did wonders and the next day, my foot was MUCH better :) but I took it easy and while I had a little limp, most people didn't even notice, so I thought I was doing super well!
So, fast forward to two days ago. I wore heels to church. not too intense, right? Wrong. I seriously don't know what it did to my foot, but it feels awful. I've also been going to dance (and actually dancing), and while I've been taking it easy, I think that hasn't exactly been helping...
Today was pretty painful, BUT it got me thinking. I am so grateful for this pain!
I'm grateful I HAVE a foot to feel pain. I'm grateful I can walk. I am grateful I can feel pain. I am grateful that my body is working and telling me that something is wrong.
Overall, I'm just grateful. I'll go home and ice it more and I'm sure it'll be better in a few days. I just realized this was a long post...but it's a story with a purpose. kind of. so, be grateful for your feet :) and don't judge people who take the elevator up only one floor. or walk up the stairs to campus super slow. because maybe their foot hurts. :) :)
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