It’s Not About How You Begin, But How You Finish!

HELEN LAMM

The Sunday Sip this time is an inspiring story of a teenager ballerina from United States of America. But what makes her story figure here? It’s because at such a young age she uses her talent for a cause and that’s what should leave us thinking if we actually make use of our lives for someone else? Do we venture out to make a move that brings a smile on someone else’s face?

Helen Lamm is 16 years old. Helen is a ballet student at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina (SC). Helen was invited to dance “Lament” at a benefit to raise money for the new Cancer Hospital at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, SC.  Her Grandmother Grace McGinnis died of cancer a year before Helen was born and her adoptive Grandmother, Joan Billheimer, is a survivor of breast cancer.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the United States and today is a perfect day to send this message across to all our friends that it matters when we reach out to someone who needs us.

Helen Lamm during a ballet performance (Picture Courtesy: Helen Lamm)

Sharing her thoughts with The Sip of Life, Helen says, “One of the reasons I enjoy performing as much as I do is that every performance is a chance to learn something about yourself that you’d been missing before. On the nights of the dress rehearsal and performance, there were technical difficulties with the music/lighting. This performance taught me that art is about more than technicalities. Despite everything, people and families that have been affected by cancer were truly touched and moved by the performance, and that’s really all that matters.”

Helen adds, “It’s not about how you begin, it’s how you finish, and the moment you take a chance to breathe and trust is the moment people remember and take with them. I am truly blessed to have been able to perform this beautiful piece of choreography with a beautiful partner for a beautiful audience. I can’t thank Miss Rowe, Cam, and everyone involved in the cancer benefit enough for such a wonderful night of hope.”