My hooping journey

Wow, what a feeling a plastic circle can bring!

How can this piece of springy, smooth tube change your life? My journey with the hula hoop has been so important to me. When I picked it up, for a few years I could hardly do anything! I saw crazy talented hoopers and always thought “wow, if only I could move like that”. It seemed so far away, like these people were doing magic or something.

But every time I asked them how they do it they said “Practice!” So that’s what I did.

I took my hoop to the park, to juggling meetings, to the beach, and sometimes just blasted music in my living room.

And over time I got better! And I started meeting so many cool people because of the hoop too. It is a kind of magic!

Sometimes I would need something or need to meet a certain person. And that person or item would appear to me somehow through people talking to be because of my hoop.

Sometimes I feel like I am not so great at hooping. Sometimes I meet someone SO unbelievably talented I feel like a clumsy beginner again. But I remind myself that its really about the FUN of doing it and I don’t have to BE any certain way to be good.

And I will never hoop like her or her or him and that’s OK because I hoop like ME!! And no one else can do that.

Whatever I am going through, my hoop is there for me. It is like a friend who is always there to dance with me, even if I feel sad, lonely or frustrated. Photo by: Lev Pakhomoff