First and foremost, an introduction.

Hello out there, to all who care. I'm Danielle, but D'elle for short because i like it better that way.

"She dances, she sings, and she'll do most anything - to get you to notice the life which she loves, eternal."

I believe in using almost every single form of self-expression, its a true and rarely understood beauty in creation. Nothing makes me feel more passionate about life.

I dance, sing, act, draw, paint, write songs, play music, photograph, read poetry, design movies, aspire to lyrics, and so much more - mostly for the love of my friends, without which I could not survive. How could any of us survive without the love of others.

Anyone who says that you can, is lying through their teeth.

I live to perform, and I perform to live. It is a life like no other, and only performers can understand the infinite joy and pain that it brings.

Through the diamond eyes of an emotional soul, that is how I see life. I'm intent on emotion, and emotional power in life and love. The beauty and strength in being overly sensitive to other peoples emotions is greatly misunderstood, and I aspire to someday understand.

This is why i act.

In acting, you are not simply displaying your talent for a connected audience.

You are using your body, your soul, your experiences; to tell sombody else's story.

Not yours, it is not you on that stage. It is their story, and they are telling it, through you.

An actor, is merely a puppet.

A marionette for the true bearer of the character.

An amazing person once told me: that it is shameful to be embarrassed of yourself on stage. You must give 100%, your entire self to that character - in doing so, that is what your audience will see. They will not see you, they will not embarrass you, because they see somebody else. They see the character telling their story through you. But, if you give any less than 100% and you hold back, then the character is not there. Nobody can see them, or feel them.

[ The audience will not see the passion of the puppeteer, only the lifelessness of the puppet. ]

The audience sees you, and only you

in all your vulnerability.

I live and breathe dancing.

Any kind, any form, any style, any code.

To dance, before hundreds of people, its a phenomenal rush.

Hundreds of eyes on you as you peform an internal expression using every bone and muscle that God has given you.

Intensity like you could never believe.

For me though, the greatest rush of all, the thing that I am slowly growing to be more passionate about: is teaching others to dance, teaching others to peform, and helping so many other people at achieve their dreams. I would much rather put my own goals aside for 10 minutes and take the time out to show a little boy how to hold a handstand, or show a little ballerina how to achieve a stunning pirouette.

Just to see the smile on their face, and feel the ecstacy they do.

Nobody on the outside can understand it.

Such a sensation, it makes me want to spend my whole life teaching.

But i don't want to teach people who don't want to learn.

I want to teach people with a drive, people with a passion. People who want to achieve.

The ones who want to achieve greatness.

And more than anything, I want to help them achieve greatness.

I am easily inspired.

A single note, a breath of fresh air outside.

These things can inspire me to want to do incredible things.

Usually, i want, i need someone to help me.

I want somebody to be there, when the dream comes, when the dream goes.

Or, when the dream becomes reality.

And then, I live, to inspire others.

Thoughout my pitiful 16 years on earth, I have grown to realise just how much I want others to be a part of my life. And, just how much I want my life to become a part of others.

Everyone before one - not one before everyone else.

If you ask for my help, if you ask me to do something, if you ask for my opinion.

I will never say no.

This is a favour never returned, but it doesnt not offend me,

because

it is in my nature to be generous.

Some people might say i act in this way to "buy friendship"

or simply for recognition.

This is untrue.

And justly so: friendship maybe be temporarily bought, but true friendship can not.

Also, in complete honesty, I never receive acknowledgement for my generosity

and so I do not seek it.

Thanks or appreciation, when rarely received, is enough for me.

I'm the girl who can be outgoing at times,

but is often forgotten.

When people organise parties

sleepovers

or a night at the movies;

I am the one who is often thought of last, or not even thought of at all.

So far this year, there as been several occasions where people have asked me:

"So what did you think of that movie last friday night?"

"How did you enjoy my birthday party?"

"Shopping was great last weekend, wasnt it?"

And I turn to them and say,

"I'm sorry, I wasn't invited. But I heard that it was great."

Strangely enough, they look at me with a false and baffled expression on their face.

As if they were wondering how or why I had been forgotten.

And though it hurts to be left out, as everybody feels at some time or another, it is not a bother.

I do not hold grudges, even if i wanted to.

If I am forgotten, then that is my problem. But I want to live to make a difference in this world, and one day, maybe one day, I might earn myself some form of recognition.

I want to make a difference in this world, in any and as many different ways.

By best, and only true friends, are all dancers.

Maybe its because we all share a similar passion in life.

Or maybe its because it was just meant to be.

Regardless, I love them like the sisters that destiny forgot to give me.

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Alicia

Emma

Christine

Jacinda

Emma

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Friends // Love \\ Dancers

Eternal.

And for those who will never realise

There is so much more to me, than the "simplicity" of this posting.

This is not even 1/10 of me.

And considering as I only know maybe 6/10 of what I am, it still isn't that much.

Please comment, if you wish to know more.

With never-ending love, D'elle.