Not every girl wants to be a ballerina

      Sometimes, or many times, she only wants to play soccer or kites, and the boy wants to be an alpinist. Some of them want to be a cooker, or dressmaker or want to be, simply, an artist.
        Nobody wants to accept a predictable future. Girls would like to go away from the world and not turn into a tourist attraction for their parents’ friends, feeling proud of their smart girls. Boys arriving home with dirty faces after a fight or a game, like trophies of their mothers who think that’s men’s stuff, maybe they would like to be another thing.
       In our lives, we don’t want to be what another person wants. We are not the desires of our parents, uncles, aunts, friends, or neighbours. Then, everyone can be a doctor, an engineer, or perhaps a son would like to live in peace in his home and a daughter would like to be an adventurer.
       Must a woman live in the home, inside a box, and a man go away looking for an adventure? Must a woman keep her feet on the ground and not jump and turn into a ballerina? Must a man keep his fast feet stopped in his house to protect it?
       Not everyone wants to accept the predictable project idealized by their families. Not everyone wants to be the father’s big project because they would do it by themselves and enjoy it. Or a woman who wants to be a perfect mother in the future or would prefer to explore other ways to create new projects.
        Not every woman wants to be a dancer only thinking about her body or the dance, but jumping all over the world, looking for a dream. Not every man wants to be an adventurer but sitting in a corner and seeing the world passing in front of him, doesn’t care where it goes.
       Not every predictable future is good for anyone because the big mystery of life is to be unlikely. We like to speak about freedom, until we meet someone really free.
      Knowing freedom, maybe the dancer returns to her home, bringing lots of dance inside her. Not every alpinist returns to find new mountains, trying to touch the sky, but climbering the scales of a song, using notes that he finds there.
        Not everyone wants to live the projects of another person. Not everyone wants to live exactly what other people choose for them. Not everyone does things defined for him or her, but, perhaps he does things differently. Ballerinas are conducted by the dance, who lives inside her, or alpinists arrive on top of a mountain without getting out of their place.

Photo from: Photo by Naitian（Tony） Wang on Unsplash 

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