“God bless you, I should send you to that folk dance class. You need some extracurricular activities, look at your vulnerable body, step up, my poor boy!”my mom told me so when I was 8 years old. At that moment, I had no choice, I wasn’t a good basketball player because of my poor constitution, so I might as well settle for what’s available-----the folk dance class.

Surprisingly, all the dancers in that class were boys like me, we practiced basic skills every week, sometimes somersault was our task, I was delighted to find my gifted skill of dancing. Every time when we were invited to some places to dance, I was always the leading dancer. However, as I furthered my folk dance career, it came to a crossroad when someone offered me a golden opportunity to join the army as an artistic soldier. My whole family encouraged me to take a crack, but fearing the hard life of army, I cried day and night to show my reluctance to join the army as an artistic soldier. All the family members were disappointed and had nothing to do with my stubbornness.

So I didn’t choose to be an artistic soldier, several years later, even my folk dance career died hopelessly, for the reason that I was sent to a boarding school, a place where you can’t find anything but endless examination and countless competition, there was no time and room for me to dance, and I totally gave up my entire dancing career. How pathetic!

Lucky me, I retrieved my passion for dancing during my university, last year, a ball was held by a dancing club, before the ball officially began, there was rock music in the air, I saw a sea of people gathered together but no one had the nerve to be the first to dance in the center of the dancing floor. Out of the original obsession for showing myself off, I stepped out as the first dancer and enjoyed myself in those adrenalin-filled atmosphere. What’s more, my dissatisfaction for the status quo that I was no longer a professional dancer urged me to join various kinds of dancing activities. Now, this is me standing in front of you, who are dying to show his choreography and his cool steps. I managed to be the choreographer from time to time though I wasn’t trained before.

It is true that I gave up so many important opportunities life has ever offered in the past, but I didn’t regret any of my own decisions, because I firmly believe that everyone has to make decisions in life, some of which easy, and some crucial. We need to be responsible for our future. The decision of not choosing to be a professional dancer has already contributed to my huge interest for dancing, and I even get the nickname of Teacher. Lan among my teammates in FLA, which is because I always have this kind of coordination in dancing and I teach well. I’m not doomed to be a professional dancer but I do show my great passion for dancing in front of my friends. I’m mostly thankful to my folk dance experience, it gives me these rare virtues of courage and passion for everything I’ve encountered.

We are lucky to have so many paths in front of us, but there is no single correct path for all of us. And I appreciate every decision made by myself, which formed my own special road and would give me a splendid future.

Robert Frost once said in his famous poem about how we decide our future:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

the road not taken in life