Success in Life

As I think about the success in my life, not much comes to mind.  However, I think I was successful as a competitive dancer.  Many people have joined dance when they were little, but not as many go through with it.  It is a big commitment.
As a competitive dancer, one must qualify for Nationals at the Regional level.  Every year I have danced, I have went to Nationals as well.  Over the years I have been to Chicago, Niagara Falls, Ohio, and Tennessee, quite a few times.  I am very proud of my accomplishments as a dancer.  I have brought home many gold winning trophies.  Also, I have received high point a few times.  High point is the overall top 5 or 10 in your category.  That is pretty great considering there are over a thousand dance numbers at a competition.
At my dance studio, I was the oldest one the last few years.  Many of the younger dancers looked up to me and allowed me to demonstrate harder moves for them to learn.  It inspired me to be the best I could.  My dance teacher would throw harder dance moves at me, but I had trouble learning them because I had no one older to look up to.  I didn't get to see the dance moves put into action all the time.  However, I still managed to learn a lot of the harder moves.  As an older dancer, flexibility is harder to achieve because the muscles don't learn as easily as a younger dancers' muscles would.  That is one thing I would have changed as a dancer.  I would have stretched more when I was younger if I could go back in time.  It really hurt me as a dancer because I could do all the moves on my right side, but found it harder on my left side because one side was more flexible than the other side.
Last year was my last year as a dancer.  I miss it, though. Aside from dance, I wouldn't say I have much success anywhere else in life except school.  Lately, I have been considering returning this year.  My dance teacher even wants me to return.  However, I have to keep school in mind when making this decision.  Would I have enough time to dedicate to school and dance?  Is my body physically and mentally able to handle both?  When it comes down to it, school is more important than anything.  So, right now I am just doing school.  I don't want to start dance until I know I can commit.  Maybe my body will get used to this schedule of being at school a lot and will allow me to dance again.  I will have to play it by ear.