Stress
"Again. Again! Again!"
Do you like hearing someone scream that at you over and over again? We hope so, because a ballerina spends her life repeating the same grand pirouette until it's perfect. Forget about "good enough" in the ballet world.
Your parents have spent their life savings to send you to an expensive dance school with the expectation that you'll make it big as a star soloist.
Your personal dance instructor tells you again and again that you have the gift...if you'd simply spend three more hours in the studio with her every day (who needs friends?) and maybe lose those last seven pounds you're carrying (you don't need those either), you just might make it. Just think what a disappointment—a failure—you'll be if you can't stick that lift.
When dance is what's stressing you out, can you still dance the stress away? Only a ballerina would know.