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Beyond the Pole
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It's so inspiring to read so many stories in which pole dancing has improved everyone. I feel it has saved my life too. It helps me fight depression. Three years ago I was very depressed but couldn't tell, I thought it was just the way I was and it was never going to change. I couldn't keep a job for more than a year (when I get very depressed I just don't want to leave my home so I would blame my jobs for the way I felt and quit). I was always down and didn't want to talk to anyone or go out. I started pole dancing because I wanted a fun way to keep fit, I wasn't stable or constant with anything so I dropped going to the gym and yoga every 2 or 3 months. When I started pole dancing everything changed. Now I don't stop excercising, it gave me a job I love and I don't think I'd ever quit and it has helped me realise a lot of things about myself I need to change to feel better. It has motivated me with my life in all aspects because when I'm feeling bad and I want lo let everything go I just start thinking I don't want to stop poling and I don't want to lose all the work I've done so far gaining flexibility, strength and resistance. It keeps me from smoking and eating incorrectly, it even keeps me from smoking too much pot when I'm depressed. It has improved the way my body looks (yesterday I made my first "proffesional" photosession and I can't believe somehting good came out, I always thought I could never do something like that).
Just today I was feeling very angry and hopeless because I had a rough week and I felt better when I found a great angry song I hadn't heard in a long time that I could dance to. It helps me express myself and release stress. Also, I found thanks to it a form of art I enjoy, keeps me fit, I can get paid to do and people care for. I used to write and ilustrate and I was quite talented but I always stopped when I was depressed and never could really focus on those things as a proffesion because I felt nobody was interested in paying for something like that. I also studied linguistics for 4 years and I dropped university because I felt it was too stressing (one day I was given a 7 instead of 8 or 9 and I could never present myself to an exam again! I couldn't control the way I felt about it!) and job opportunities here related to that are not enough in my opinion for all that work. With pole dancing is different and I feel now when I meet people they are instantly interested in me because of what I can do. This doesn't happen to writers or ilustrators as much Lol. It has given me so much I think pole dancing is something every girl should do and since I've started I feel I've found a place for me in the world that I don't ever want to leave no matter how frustrated I feel about anything in life.
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