Lucky to be a Sister

As I read this exercise on how to be lucky I realized two things: 1. Twyla Tharp likes to title her exercises the broad sense of what she is talking about and 2. I could relate very much to what she was talking about.

            Twyla stated that you need to be generous, what this has to do with luck.. I am still not sure. She stated that, “to be a great choreographer, you have to invest everything you have in your dancers.” That is the difference between great dancers that have the ability to teach well and choreographers. This made me think of the situations I have been though. Mostly, the difference between a best friend and a sister. The sisters I talk about happen to be my sorority sisters. In order to work with all 80 girls to my full extent, you have to be generous. You have to be willing to help out when they need it. And you have to be generous enough to do it without asking anything in return. This reminds me of a story one of my best friends and sister, Lynn, told me. She got out of her bed when she had the flu at 3 in the morning to help one of the sisters that ran out of gas on the side of the road. Situations like this stay deep in me. They show me that when you are generous you have 80 other sisters willing to be just as generous.

Just some of my sisters

            This is also how I relate to the title, “how to be lucky.” When joining this organization I realized I would be giving the same generosity needed and getting it in return. To me this is luck. Finding people that you can trust well enough with your life and always knowing they are willing to give you their all.