beauty is pain

i put on pointe shoes tonight for the first time in six or eight months [maybe longer] and it was like coming home to something familiar and i love the way my feet look the way they move the pressure and the beautiful pain from being gone for so long, the way they are still perfectly broken in and shaped to my feet. pain is beauty and beauty is love and love is pain. the callouses remain in some places but they've been worn down by day-to-day life.

"any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."