{"id":3683,"date":"2016-10-03T03:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T03:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2016-10-03T03:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T03:20:35","slug":"bal-mela-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=3683","title":{"rendered":"Bal Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dancing is one of my most favorite activities, and also something I&#8217;m not too bad at. So when the forms for Bal Mela were released, I instantly ticked to be a part of the running stage, unaware of what was ahead of me.<\/p>\n<p>3 days before the event, I was informed that my job involved 4 hours of continuous dancing, as the number of schools and children had increased. Instantly I felt, I didn&#8217;t want to participate anymore. Despite of my love for dance, due to my extremely poor stamina and dislike for physical exertion I wasn&#8217;t willing to go ahead with my participation. To my relief, there was an escape. My family was traveling to Mumbai that weekend for a family function that I reallyyy wanted to attend. I figured I had the chance to back out from the event with the excuse of going to Mumbai.<br \/>\nI instantly picked up the phone to call up my dad regarding it, but in that moment, I just realized a few things. I put the phone down, and went into thinking about the ethical aspect of the decision I was about to make. I realized that I had given my word to somebody. And that someone depended on me for their event. Additionally, the underprivileged kids that I was doing this for, don&#8217;t get chances like these to enjoy all the time. I was responsible in that moment for the happiness of those littles kids and for the organizers. I figured that I couldn&#8217;t let someone else down because of my own enjoyment and biases.<br \/>\nAnd so I didn&#8217;t. I stayed back at home, woke up in the morning and danced for 4 hours for those kids and for myself.<\/p>\n<p>The sweat and the body ache had become all worth it, as I was proud to take a decision like this by myself. I felt inner peace and happiness as I knew that I had done the more difficult, but the right thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3684 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-31.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3685 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-21.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/unnamed-11.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancing is one of my most favorite activities, and also something I&#8217;m not too bad at. So when the forms for Bal Mela were released, I instantly ticked to be a part of the running stage, unaware of what was ahead of me. 3 days before the event, I was informed that my job involved 4 hours of continuous dancing,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riya-hitesh-shah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}