12 is the best age

I know a girl who is 12. She has been dancing for ohhhhhhhhhh 9 years and has been called a "dance prodigy". Yes, that's three fourths of her young life spent in the studio, perfecting her craft, as they say. People would ask her parents if they were crazy to drive her back and forth to dance every day. Or, were they some kind of Nazi stage parents? No, the girl simply loved dance. She loved her abilities, the studio, her teachers, her fellow dancers, competition and exercise. Then, one day she tells her parents she'd like to take a year off and try all the things she's been giving up all these years, like tennis! Isn't being 12 the best? Do you think a 40 year old can have that kind of a "do over"? No way! 12 is the best age. :)